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What should I do with old electronics? (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I got a box full of a bunch of stuff from over the years. Some big, some small, some expensive, some cheap. It seems like a shame to throw it all in a landfill, with or without personal data.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do everything possible to make sure no personal data exists and then e waste dispose in your community or just post it to ebay dirt cheap - you can often get the shipping costs covered and bump your review number up this way. I've had some electronics die where I was not able to get personal info cleared off. In those cases I smash them up with a hammer, box them up and ewaste dispose of the box ( surface pro sadly met this fate recently).