Product Reviews Net » recycling http://www.product-reviews.net Information on the latest gadgets, technology, news and product reviews Sun, 27 May 2012 08:13:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 What to do with your unwanted or broken Mac’s http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/03/14/what-to-do-with-your-unwanted-or-broken-macs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-to-do-with-your-unwanted-or-broken-macs http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/03/14/what-to-do-with-your-unwanted-or-broken-macs/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 09:25:51 +0000 Gary Johnson http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=125128 When you buy that new piece of tech, you are left with the decision what to do with the old item you no longer want. Or sometimes an electrical item may stop working and not be cost effective to repair, so do you just chuck in the trash can?

There is a place you can go to solve these problems if you have an unwanted Mac computer, which can also get you some cash as well. MacRecycler.com offers a service where it will take your old Mac’s off your hands and pay you some money even if it is not working.

They offer a great service where they totally recycle all the old parts. Some equipment that can still be used is refurbished and returned to market. Systems can be stripped of their useful parts and reused elsewhere, or if nothing can be used it will be recycled in an environmentally friendly way.

Any equipment which they take in has all personal data completely erased using Apple’s Zero Out Format. They also can take a hard drive out and make it un-usable. All owners need to do is go over to the website and get a free quote for their device, if you like the quote MacRecycler will send out a shipping label for you. You can receive payment via PayPal or even have a check sent out.

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]]> http://www.product-reviews.net/2011/03/14/what-to-do-with-your-unwanted-or-broken-macs/feed/ 0 America Recycles Day (ARD): Cell Phone Recycling http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/11/15/america-recycles-day-ard-cell-phone-recycling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=america-recycles-day-ard-cell-phone-recycling http://www.product-reviews.net/2010/11/15/america-recycles-day-ard-cell-phone-recycling/#comments Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:49:35 +0000 Peter Chubb http://www.product-reviews.net/?p=114090 Today is November 15th, which means that it is America Recycles Day or ARD. This is the only national day that people recognize as the day they should recycle their old products. One devcie that just gets thrown in the bin is the cell phone, so why not give them away to charity?

More often than not people do not even bother trading their old phones in, they just leave them lying around or as I said above, just get rid of them. Giving them away to people whom would really benefit would certainly fall into the idea of America Recycles Day; so start today.

It has been reported that over 65,000 tons of toxic waste is caused by discarded cell phones, this is because the average life of a cell phone now is just 18 months, as new models are released more frequently than ever before. A number of mobile phone manufactures understand this issue, and for that reason build their new handsets so that most parts can be recycled.

There are a number of charities that will welcome your discarded cell phones, these include: National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Phones For Life and Donate A Phone. For more details on this visit Charity Guide.

What do you do with your old cell phones?

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