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Description: Green Citizen helps individuals & organizations recycle electronics responsibly. They provide convenient, affordable & responsible solutions that make it easy for everyone to do their part to help save the environment from harmful electronic waste.
Green Citizen for your Electronic Trash
Back in 1992 or 1991, I remember when a friend, who worked for Arthur Andersen at the time, walked me through the specifics of my first computer purchase. I was replacing a Sanyo MBC 1550 with two 5.25" floppy drives (all ROM memory) with a laptop. "80 Mb is all you'll need -- do you know how much typing you'll have to do to fill that up?"
That computer got me through the end of my senior year as an undergrad and through grad school. It was a black-and-white plasma screen (oooh!) and had Windows 3.1. I used Word Perfect 5.1 and PFS WindowWorks -- later acquired by Microsoft and turned into Excel and the basis for MS Office.
I now have a desktop machine with two external 400 Gb drives, two internal 400 Gb drives set up as a RAID array, an 80 Gb drive (the original drive when put this machine together with a friend six years ago) and a 200 Gb drive. I also have a big box of sound cards, cords, cables and junk that I don't use. It might be about time to replace my motherboard.
Fortunately, there's Green Citizen -- I can take all my computer junk to them and they'll recycle it. They take apart components that can be re-used and build new computers for school kids, and then break down the other stuff. There are a lot of items they'll take for free -- but you may have to pay a nominal fee (like fifty cents per pound) for other stuff.
Jenn A.'s keywords: electronic waste, recycling, electronics, computer recycling
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