Are there non-profits or other organizations who will accept old computer equipment as donations?
If you have equipment that meets their minimum specs, then Nonprofit Technology Resources is a great place to take your equipment for reuse: http://www.ntronline.org/ They’ll do pickups if you have enough stuff, and they do low-level wipes of hard drives before redistribution. For other stuff that can’t be effectively re-used, the ideal solution is an organization that has signed the Basel Action Network’s Electronic Recyclers Pledge of True Stewardship, which guarantees that your waste won’t end up dumped in the developing world or other unhealthy places. Here’s a directory of local resources: http://www.e-stewards.org/local_estewards.html. You might also be in a good position to collaborate with other student organizations and host an Ethical Electronics Recycling Event with http://toxtour.org. My Quaker meeting hosted one in may – people pay $1/pound to drop stuff off, and the organization gets $0.15 of that – you might be able to offset your expenses for disposal that way (you’d ha
