What to do with old printer?

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I've got an old Canon bubblejet here that's worn out beyond
repair. Besides possibly saving the cartridges and print head,
what should I do with it? Can any of it be recycled or shall i
just chuck it in the rubbish? (I'm in the UK if that makes any
difference..)
Thanks.
 
Tom Cumming <[email protected]> said:
I've got an old Canon bubblejet here that's worn out beyond
repair. Besides possibly saving the cartridges and print head,
what should I do with it? Can any of it be recycled or shall i
just chuck it in the rubbish? (I'm in the UK if that makes any
difference..)
Thanks.
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Many council dumps have special areas for computers, peripherals etc.
 
I've got an old Canon bubblejet here that's worn out beyond
repair. Besides possibly saving the cartridges and print head,
what should I do with it? Can any of it be recycled or shall i
just chuck it in the rubbish? (I'm in the UK if that makes any
difference..)
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Leave it outside your house.
Within 10 minutes some moron will have nicked it.
 
Tom Cumming said:
I've got an old Canon bubblejet here that's worn out beyond repair.
Besides possibly saving the cartridges and print head, what should I do
with it? Can any of it be recycled or shall i just chuck it in the
rubbish? (I'm in the UK if that makes any difference..)
Thanks.
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Sell it on eBay
 
Perhaps a non cynical reply for you Tom.
We service printers at the other end of the world!
HP provide a free pick up service for old hardware (doesn't have to be HP
gear), we just let them know when we have enough to dispose of.
The gear is sent overseas where it is recycled into usable material.
So give a local printer repairer a call and see if you can drop it off to them
(should be no charge). We do it all the time.
Good on you for being caring.
Tony
 
Leave it outside your house.
Within 10 minutes some moron will have nicked it.
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Yes. I did that with two old computer cases. The contained dead
motherboards, dead memory and a dead CD ROM. Nicked within a fortnight
(but it only took that long because they were hidden in an alley
behind the house). Works every time :)

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Perhaps a non cynical reply for you Tom.
We service printers at the other end of the world!
HP provide a free pick up service for old hardware (doesn't have to be HP
gear), we just let them know when we have enough to dispose of.
The gear is sent overseas where it is recycled into usable material.
So give a local printer repairer a call and see if you can drop it off to them
(should be no charge). We do it all the time.
Good on you for being caring.
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Many thanks.. will see how I get on!!
 
Tom Cumming said:
Many thanks.. will see how I get on!!
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We all need to be careful about how our discarded equipment gets re-cycled.

I have seen TV footage of Electronic Equipmant being re-cycled in China.
They import discarded stuff from all over the world.

The work is being done by very poor, and I presume uneducated, people
without any regard to their safety. They extract solder from PCBs, etc, by
burning, or by heating over open fires. There is no environmental
protection of any kind, and no precautions are being taken to protect these
workers from fumes or anything else.

So we need to ask our recyclers, especially those who are offering a free
service, exactly where the material is going and how the work will be
carried out.
Landfill might well be a better long term solution than these Chinese
recyclers.

Roy G
 
....and in reply I say!:

Sorry to be cynical, but is this recycling done in India, or a like
place? Have you seen what is _happening_ there? Poor people, including
children, being paid peanuts to be poisoned by heating the circuitry
over open flames in horrible conditions to remove parts. And then huge
organisations moving in and taking over the smaller businesses,
offering even lower pay for the same conditions.
The gear is sent overseas where it is recycled into usable material.
So give a local printer repairer a call and see if you can drop it off to them
(should be no charge). We do it all the time.
Good on you for being caring.
Tony
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Yes some recyclers do that but not all. I am assured that HP do not use that
sort of recycling, that's why we use them.
There are recyclers all over the world that do it properly, we shouldn't assume
that all are bad, worth asking!!

Tony
 
Yes some recyclers do that but not all. I am assured that HP do not use that
sort of recycling, that's why we use them.
There are recyclers all over the world that do it properly, we shouldn't assume
that all are bad, worth asking!!
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That's why I really pointed it out. If HP are doing the right thing
than good on em.

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In certain countries now, a tax or fee is being charged at the front end
to help finance proper disposal and recycling of e-waste. These are
called "take back" programs, and HP has been on the cutting edge of
this, although they have been less successful in getting the word out in
North America it would seem. They charge a fee for most equipment right
now in N.A. because the taxes on the front end aren't yet in place in
most locations.

I have to agree with you that some of the conditions I have seen
reported upon regarding workers in developing countries dismantling high
tech, has been very disheartening. In India and China, there are whole
rivers being contaminated by lead and other heavy metals from mountains
of used hi-tech (much coming from 1st world countries) that are left
there to be "recycled". The workers are often younger children and
women (some of childbearing ages) who burn off insulation from wires in
open pit fires, to extract the copper, or other similar processes.

Canada, by law is NOT supposed to allow any of our e-waste to go to
developing nations, but in one documentary I saw, they found not only
Canadian owned goods mixed in, but some pieces had government IDs tags
still readable on them.

Art
 
...and in reply I say!:

Sorry to be cynical, but is this recycling done in India, or a like
place? Have you seen what is _happening_ there? Poor people, including
children, being paid peanuts to be poisoned by heating the circuitry
over open flames in horrible conditions to remove parts. And then huge
organisations moving in and taking over the smaller businesses,
offering even lower pay for the same conditions.
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It would be better all-round if equipment could be made to last a
bit better. This is an S600 I'm chucking away (c.2000), whereas my
BJ200ex (c.1994) still works fine!
 
In the tech industry, while making things better would be nice, the
products are economically obsolete before they wear out. I need to
replace my high powered desktop in favor of a dual core CPU with 1 or 2
Gigs of RAM and a quarter of a Terabyte of Hard Disk Space just to
continue to be effective.
 
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