Computer graveyard

[Rosy]

I've got several old computers, printers, monitors, tellies etc I want to get get rid of. I reckon they've been breeding in the shed. Rang the shire for info. The tip won't take them and there won't be a collection in this area for 18 months. The easy option would be to dump them in a landfill up the back paddock but that's not overly environmentally friendly so a no goi. Just wondering how others dispose of these things? Also is there much risk of information, ie bank details, being accessed from the old computers?

 

[larabee]

couple of links below for you rosie.

ewaste drop off points:
http://www.environment.gov.au/settlements/waste/ewaste/drop-off-points.html

recycling / donation centres
http://www.givenow.com.au/otherways/electricals#vic

as for the info on hard drives, if the recycle/reuse place don't wipe them, maybe you could take them out and take a hammer to them?

 

[Streak]

I am amazed your local tip doesn't take that stuff.

Wonder what the reason is. Our tip puts them in a special dump bin and sends them to Perth for recycling. Not sure what happens to the bits that cannot be recycled.

Given I live 400km from Perth, you'd think it would be worth the while of a tip site in Victoria doing the same.

I mean, I know our tip does not recover costs on doing this, but it apprently doesn't cost all that much (I asked them one day) and we are 400km from Perth.

 

[SfB_AkA._DeLiCiOuS]

Also is there much risk of information, ie bank details, being accessed from the old computers?

The safest and quickest way to make sure your identity isn't stolen in the future is to physically destroy it.
Or you can take apart the drive and damage the individual components, also a program like 'PowerTools' which reformats the drive but instead it overwrites all the data currently on it so that the original information no longer exists. (It's not a free program though).

 

[LeeToRainesToRoach]

Reckon these things could be valuable antiques one day.

 

[Azza]

The safest and quickest way to make sure your identity isn't stolen in the future is to physically destroy it.
Or you can take apart the drive and damage the individual components, also a program like 'PowerTools' which reformats the drive but instead it overwrites all the data currently on it so that the original information no longer exists. (It's not a free program though).

I chucked an old one in the Coonara over winter. Very pretty.