OT: Electronics recycling: what actually happens?

Bert Coules · 2013-02-27T14:03:40+00:00

Having tried unsucessfully first to sell and then to give away a number of old analogue satellite receivers and sundry other bits of audio-visual gear, I'm reconciled to taking the lot to the council tip (sorry, recycling plant). But what actually will happen to it there? Does it get shunted on to some more specialised company which strips out anything useful and/or valuable? Or what?

Feb 27, 2013 42 Replies

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djc 13 years ago

'Value', in this context, is the price someone is prepared to pay.

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polygonum 13 years ago

As someone is prepared to pay 20, then the tax should be on that even if it is findable at 10?

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Lobster 13 years ago

Or it gets sent to the third world where kids extract any mineral content of value by burning it:

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