Comments on: HP grindhouse: Where old PCs go to die

For worn-out electronic gear, the end of the road could be a Hewlett-Packard recycling plant in Roseville, Calif.
Photos: HP's hardware graveyard

[lamaze]

Recycling Facilities

Anybody aware of any of these types of facilities in the Indianapolis area where computers/parts are recycled? I have tons of antique computer equipment that I would like to clear from our warehouse.

[chuchucuhi]

Hmm....

Shouldn't there be a train at the crossroads of America that can ship is there? Hehe.

[dondarko]

here is a link for you

find what you need:

http://www.recyclingmarkets.net/markets/index.html

[Pokerfish]

Progress

Much better than shipping off e-waste on the black market to places like rural China to be manually salvaged by slave laborers under hazardous work conditions in ways that pollute the local environment.

I hope to see an entire market emerge for recycling e-waste. But I'm afraid there simply isn't much motivation for most businesses to recycle until the price of raw materials climbs to a certain level.

Btw, a lot of the e-waste is created by all the technophiles out there who've constantly got to upgrade their tech every time something new comes out. (I'm using a computer I got in 2000, yes, a veritable relic in computer years.)

[dondarko]

very few people know this...

but there is a company that has two recycling plants in US and one in Europe. The concept behind it is to mimic natural earth process of recycling (think dinosaurs and other plants and animals, being converted into crude oil).

Supposedly the plants are self-sufficient and they don't pollute at all. Byproducts of the plant are pure water, minerals, oil, glass, and other materials. Currently they are running animal leftovers from slaughter and other organic materials, but the process can apply to almost all common market products.

it's called changing world technologies and they've been around for at least 6 years, b/c I've followed their development all along.

http://changingworldtech.com/

[Sprouty01]

Reputable Company

I've heard of recycling your laptops but never knew how thorough they were. This is a great process, though it may not be profitable it shows us who cares about helping the environment. I commend HP for there efforts and am even happier now to already owning one of there products. Now I'm interested to see what other big companies are dedicated. You have my support HP.

[Mellifluous]

Just a picky thing

Eddy needn't be capitalized. It's not named after someone; it's descriptive, like an eddy (swirl) of water. From Wikipedia:

An eddy current (also known as Foucault current) is an electrical phenomenon discovered by French physicist Léon Foucault in 1851. ...

[ricominc]

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