Where to recycle/donate lots of old computer/TV cables?

blizeH

Hi,

I've got loads of old cables I'd like to recycle but I'm not sure of the best place to take them? PC World apparently have a recycling scheme but around 5 years ago when I took a bag of cables there the guy was very confused and wouldn't take them.

Any suggestions please? Or maybe there's somewhere I could donate them?

Thanks

psychic_teabag

On the grounds that reusing is better than recycling..

you could offer them on freecycle / freegle. Perhaps to a charity shop, but they might well just bin them anyway when they can't sell them

Maybe see if an independent computer repairer can make any use of them ?

Failing all that, if you take them to a council tip and put it in the electronic waste bin they might recycle it.

Frozen_up_north

Your council recycling centre, took a bagful myself yesterday.

googler

Our council recycle place has a scrap bin for "Small Electricals", but also has a walk-in container set aside for what they call "The Good Stuff", that folks don't want, but is still perfectly usable. This is periodically emptied by accredited charities and the like.

If you have a local PC repairer or supplier, you might consider donating them to him/her, or perhaps entering into a barter agreement, where you exchange or part-exchange them for new stuff, or maybe they'll offer you a credit note for them.

freecycle
gumtree
eBay
etc

stator

Spend your evenings whittling away the cables and then sell the copper

forgotmyname

Couple of local council tips have shops on site, anything good you can drop off at the shop.

Hive of activity, but not as cheap as they used to be. One site has an old guy who is obviously not short of a few bob and thinks everything should be £10 upwards.

The previous guy sold everything cheaply, spotted a small wooden box in a poor state thinking its going to be really cheap.. nope.. £20 that was a writing box he said. Well now its a tatty empty box with just a corner section of felt left and hinges hanging off and its not worth £2 never mind £20. Stopped going to that one.

knightstyle

Take a pic. and ask Turing Trust if they can use them.
Turing Trust, Unit 16, 9 Harvest Road, Newbridge Industrial Estate, Edinburgh,
EH28 8LW
E-mail: info@turingtrust.co.uk

Owain_Moneysaver

knightstyle wrote: »

Take a pic. and ask Turing Trust if they can use them.

"any donations of computers and laptops which are less than 6 years old and Windows 7 or above."

They won't want my 12 year old laptop which runs Raspian beautifully, then.