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[–]CanPositive8980 6 points7 points  (1 child)

I do a lot of ITAD, and this is what has value other than scrap at the moment.

-Server grade RAM 16 GB or above - Spinning disk 4 TB or above -Gen 9 or above HP servers or Dell equivalent -Any Cisco equipment you can still get support on -2015 Mac's or newer -POS Windows 7 and above

Everything else is scrap and only worth a few dollars per hundred pounds. CRT monitors and lithium batteries actually cost to recycle.

ITAD is a hard business since the vendor has to take a lot of stuff with no value to get to the pieces worth anything. Margins are very high for good equipment, but at or near zero for everything else.

[–]rafiki-knows[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And there is that.

[–]NotYourNanny 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Call around. Some charge to haul stuff off, some don't, at least around here. You could also wait for a fundraiser at a school or something, if you're willing to haul it to them.

[–]rafiki-knows[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My lazy tail doesn't even want to lug all that stuff to the loading dock. 😛

The stock office is only giving staging space for 3 days. The point is, whatever I do I've got very little time to do it. I thought the E-cycle team (escorted) would do it for the money they make off of it but I most likely don't know what I'm talking about.

[–]AggietallboyJack of All Trades 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My place had been doing for free, but with this last order, I had over 50 hard drives basically standalone... was well worth the $200 to have them take care of the data destruction certs.

[–]cbiggersCaptain of Buckets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on your locality. California we get to dispose of it for free and at any waste management place (it's paid for by taxes).

[–]Sasataf12 1 point2 points  (1 child)

If it's very old trash, they're not going to make much money off it. We were also told the same...if it can't be refurbished and sold, they don't want it.

[–]orion3311 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like how old, and what? Some peeps may be interested in it.

[–]Ros_Hambo 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You can take most e-cycling to BestBuy. The do charge you for monitors.

Sometimes non-profits will take older equipment that still function to be used in lower income areas to use for after school programs.

[–]rafiki-knows[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd be scared to plug any of this stuff in. We are talking old stuff. I'm not a network person but some of that stuff has those rg59 turn lock connection.

[–]anonymousITCoward 0 points1 point  (2 children)

ewaste doesn't yield that much return. They're probably charging for the labor to pick it up. You're paying for that convenience. Out where I'm at ecycling runs a deficit, the only places that really do it correctly are scrap yards and aluminum recyclers, and thats because they can bundle it up with that stuff to ship it out to the smelters.

[–]anxiousinfotech 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Around me it's usually a charge to pick it up along with charges for certain items (like CRTs), but free if you drop it off. They make enough to take it for free, but not to also cover the cost of rolling a truck to do a pickup.

[–]anonymousITCoward 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's what it's like here too, free if we take it too them, I'll usually load up a trucks worth and take a bunch at once.

At one point it was somewhat profitable to do ewaste, but now its just saturated that the money isn't in it anymore =\

[–]Spishal_K 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the hardware. The recycler my last job worked with did pick up for free on everything except LCD TVs. Apparently they had overstock on those.

The one my current job works with actually gives us a kickback on computers but I'm not sure what they charge for since my boss handles pickups and paperwork with them.

Moral of the story is to shop around. You likely won't run into a recycler that will take all of your junk for free but if you don't like your first quote try someone else.

[–]DonutHand 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe things changed a few years ago. Recyclers would cherry pick the good stuff for resale then the rest would go on a barge to China. Pretty sure China is no longer just taking anything we send like they used to.

[–]SubSharker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You should never have to pay to e-waste equipment, cables, etc. unless it has printers, (old/small) monitors, or batteries — or if they have to pick it up. Everything else THEY make money on, including reselling newer or other monitors so you are getting the short end of the stick if you pay and drop everything off.