what to do with old PC monitor

tee_pee_2

Hiya

Apologies if this is the wrong section ( move me if you want )

I want some advice as I have just joined the 20th C and change my monitor to a flat screen and the old bulky one has been shoved under the stairs.
However I don't want it as it takes up far too much room.

I have had a look on my council web site and there is no mention of recycling stuff like this and I really dont want to just chuck in in the tip as there is a big notice over the skip saying

" do you need to put this in here where it will go into costly landfill". I feel obliged to do something eco friendly with it.

Any suggestions

Mrs_B_12

Freecycle it!! http://www.freecycle.org/

Find your local group, join up and post an OFFERED message and wait for someone local to pick it up. You get rid of it and someone else gets use and it's not gone to landfill.

tee_pee_2

Mrs_B wrote:

Freecycle it!! http://www.freecycle.org/

Find your local group, join up and post an OFFERED message and wait for someone local to pick it up. You get rid of it and someone else gets use and it's not gone to landfill.

excellent. That idea ticks all my boxes.
Cheers:beer:

oops_a_daisy

definately freecycle it - people advertise them regularly on my local one and they all go

Andy_L

There are a couple of charities that will take them as well

tee_pee_2

I have hit a snag! Joined freecycle and managed to put up an "offered" message, checked this morning and it is there, but.... how do I know if someone wants it? I know have a yahoo email address but don't know how to access it. ( Doh)

Just realised I didn't put my phone number on either! So just added that.:o

Andy L Just in case I have no luck with freecycle, which charities would take it. The hospice one near me won't take electrical stuff.

Mrs_B_12

You have a profile on Yahoo groups and you can put an email address on there and any replies will automatically be sent there then.

nej

I once put an old PC and a monitor out in the vain hope that the bin men would take them with the rubbish.

They didn't, but I left it there and it was gone within a few hours!

Andy_L

https://www.computersforcharities.co.uk/

https://www.computersforcharity.org.uk

I have no experience with either, the're the top 2 hits on google

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&cr=countryUK|countryGB&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=computers+for+charities&spell=1

tee_pee_2

nej wrote:

I once put an old PC and a monitor out in the vain hope that the bin men would take them with the rubbish.

They didn't, but I left it there and it was gone within a few hours!

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: beltin idea

C_Ronaldo

near us there is a local comapny who will take your old monitors and sell them on or give them to charities