A cunning plan for disposal.

[SteveT]

AFAIK......

 

If I take the MoBo, HDD and PSU out of the system cases it no longer contains items that come under the WEEE regulations. Therefore I should then be able to put the cases in the skip.

 

The MoBos, HDDs and PSUs can then be put into a box and taken to the LA Household Recycling centre a few at a time.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Still working on what to do with the CRTs!!

[russdev]

lol

 

by way you would be breaking law if you took your school stuff to household waste site and possable open your schoool up to be fined

 

russ

[plexer]

But on the cases yup they are then just scrap metal as long as you remove the front panel leads and leds I suppose.

 

Ben

[Guest]

I still think Ebay jot lots is better. 16 old RM Celeron 400 fetched £340.00 for me last week

[SpuffMonkey]

Or you could join your local Freecycle group - its on Yahoo somewhere - people offer up stuff for free - and other people say "Yes please" - its great for getting rid of old stuff.

[Ric_]

Or you give all your old crap away to your friendly dealer in 2nd hand computer antiquities (cheers Stu ).

[Disease]

You also need to factor in the fact that really the drives should be wiped to military standard to ensure 100% that you comply with Data Protection.

[Andrew_C]

by way you would be breaking law if you took your school stuff to household waste site and possable open your schoool up to be fined

russ

This is NOT what our LA have said. They are MORE than happy for schools to take stuff to the amenities site, and have special arrangements for monitors and TVs in place. Your area may be different, but a quick phone call could save a lot of farting around!

 

As for HDDs, I stick them in a pillar drill and put a 6mm hole through a controller chip, the circuit board and the platter. You would have to be very keen to recover from that!

[SteveT]

lol

 

by way you would be breaking law if you took your school stuff to household waste site and possable open your schoool up to be fined

 

russ

 

Nope. I would "donate" these bits to myself. As a council taxpayer I`m entitled to to take reasonable amounts to the recycling site free of charge!

 

As for wiping HDDs .......... lump hammer does the job reasonably effectively

[Disease]

 

As for wiping HDDs .......... lump hammer does the job reasonably effectively

 

Aye that would work

[john]

I find running over them with a bus works quite well

[sidewinder]

When we've only got a few bits we just take the lot to the recycling centre, and sandpaper off the school name and any markings left, just in case, thats mostly just CRTs though.

 

Most of our old working PC's get donated somewhere or used by me for something, and I never throw away HD's. Im quite a keen recycler and dont let anyone throw much away at work

[ChrisH]

The local computer recycling place comes and takes my old computer gear away for free.

[FN-GM]

putting them in here could be an option

 

http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/islandcreekes/ecology/Habitat/Pond/pond1.jpg

[davyboi]

just had northwest electronics recycling centre in here they charge 40 pound for outside liverpool n will take asmuch as you have, they must have taken at least 20 crts and base units aswell as a couple of printers n an old ups for 40 pound you really cant complain,

[jcollings]

Cumbria Grid for Learning site has info on a company who will pick most old ICT kit for free. The only charges made are for monitors which they charge £5 each for.

 

Curriculum : Curriculum ICT : Diposal of Electrical and Computer related goods

[elsiegee40]

Another vote for the lump hammer here - far and away the quickest method of wiping HDDs - very satisfying too - good for getting rid of aggression!

 

As for disposal. Our local disposal site has containers for CPUs as well as for monitors and we take them there.

[Joanne]

I open up the HDD and use the plates as trendy mirrors!

[davyboi]

what can acctually be retrived from a hard disk from just a stanard curriculum pc from a IT suite or classroom? because all work ect will go back to server, its not like kids have there adresses and bank details saved, i can understand with admin machines but surely all that is on a curriculum is os and software?

[sidewinder]

what can acctually be retrived from a hard disk from just a stanard curriculum pc from a IT suite or classroom? because all work ect will go back to server, its not like kids have there adresses and bank details saved, i can understand with admin machines but surely all that is on a curriculum is os and software?

 

thats the way i see it, yeah

i wipe them so far as windows wont boot anymore, no point doing anything else

especially as we donate most of ours, schools wouldnt be so willing to take them if they had no HD's

[SteveT]

bit of a Lazarus thread this!!!!

[Sirbendy]

I find a pillar drill, followed by "footie down the stairs" tends to do a good job. We do strip our rigs down though..boards go to art/DT for spares, cases to the scrapyard up the road.

[stratisphere]

I remember I took some old cases (RM cases... enjoyed every moment of this) to the skip and chucked them in one by one. Some guy who worked there asked if this was industrial waste, I replyed nah it's all from home. Computers are my hobby.

 

He said ok and walked off

 

(I did remove all ID/asset stickers before hand)

[witch]

Personally, I think it is a criminal waste of resources to destroy a perfectly good HD that has only ever had curriculum software on it - no admin or personal details.

I wipe mine with something like killdisk and then I freecycle them: To date I have found homes for 35 machines and monitors, 10 separate monitors and countless keyboards mice etc.

Some went to a local IT guy who teaches IT to adults. 19 went to Africa, and the rest went to people on Freecyle who wanted them.

Every couple of months I put up a reminder that I have lots of CRTs if anyone wants them and usually get rid of one or two that way.

The schools I work in don't ask and don't care what I do - they scrap them off the inventory and that is it as far as they are concerned. The more money I can save them the better

[jcollings]

Personally, I think it is a criminal waste of resources to destroy a perfectly good HD that has only ever had curriculum software on it - no admin or personal details.

I wipe mine with something like killdisk and then I freecycle them: To date I have found homes for 35 machines and monitors, 10 separate monitors and countless keyboards mice etc.

Some went to a local IT guy who teaches IT to adults. 19 went to Africa, and the rest went to people on Freecyle who wanted them.

Every couple of months I put up a reminder that I have lots of CRTs if anyone wants them and usually get rid of one or two that way.

The schools I work in don't ask and don't care what I do - they scrap them off the inventory and that is it as far as they are concerned. The more money I can save them the better

 

I agree with you. Too much stuff is chucked away that still has a use. I freecycle lots of stuff (both IT and not) and think it's a terrific scheme. The other thing we're currently working on is a green computing project where we get people in for the day and basically let them build a system from old bits then install Ubuntu or the like, firefox, open office etc. They can go away with a PC that meets their needs for very little money and learn Microsoft isn't the only way.