Community based computer recycling
Nowadays it is a big issue that used computing equipment is a big source of hazardous waste.
In Hungary electric shops are forced (?) to collect used equipment, which were bought there. For older stuff you have to pay for recycling. Not everyone can afford this and in Budapest we even have a “used trash collection week”, where people just move their unused belongings to the streets and the garbage company will transport it for no fee. Well, this is the idea, but gangs are just fighting for to them interesting stuff found in trash.
Free Geek Vancouver, a canadian geek group solved this problem for computing equipment: they collect hardware for free, only charging $10 for monitors (which are the real hazard).
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