Electronic waste - mobile phones

[Lorry]

(I found a thread from 2018.)

Where do I dispose of old mobile phones?

They do have all the apps loaded, including banking apps. They cannot be started anymore (they are bricked),   so it is not possible to delete any data.

[KhunLA]

Nothing a hammer can't fix permanently, then just bin it.

[billd766]

I live in rural Kamphaeng Phet and have a similar problem. We have old mobile phones. a tablet, 2 old laptop PCs, an old desktop, old keyboards, mouse, 4 old UPS, cables, power supplies and I can find no way to dispose of them.

 

I don't want to throw them in the trash as many of them still have the apps and probably some data on the as well.

 

What can I do with them?

[Lorry]

50 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Nothing a hammer can't fix permanently, then just bin it.

I would think the hammer is good to destroy the data.

And that's the way my last laptop ended. Hammer and sickle, then the bin.

Now, gf started talking about electronic waste.  It makes me feel bad if I, from a rich country,  am less environmentally conscious than she.

But, of course,  she has no idea what to do...

[KhunLA]

6 hours ago, Lorry said:

I would think the hammer is good to destroy the data.

And that's the way my last laptop ended. Hammer and sickle, then the bin.

Now, gf started talking about electronic waste.  It makes me feel bad if I, from a rich country,  am less environmentally conscious than she.

But, of course,  she has no idea what to do...

After put it a state you are happy with, take it to the district office, as that's where the trash folks hang out, at lest at our local office up the road a bit.  They will dispose of it 'properly', if there is a way in your area.

 

We burn out trash, so I'd either add to the burn oven, or tape it to the trash bin, they come to pick up, empty weakly.   I've taped LIPO batteries to the bin, and let them decide what to do with the,  

 

Some malls have electronic trash collecting bins, as so some electronic stores.  One in Hua Hin used to but for some reason they don't collect any more.  Hence the last time I had one to dispose of, it got taped to the collection bin.

 

 

[billd766]

11 hours ago, Lorry said:

I would think the hammer is good to destroy the data.

And that's the way my last laptop ended. Hammer and sickle, then the bin.

Now, gf started talking about electronic waste.  It makes me feel bad if I, from a rich country,  am less environmentally conscious than she.

But, of course,  she has no idea what to do...

IMO smashing all the stuff up with a hammer will only lead yp a bigger pile of broken bits foe me to get rid of, and they will probably end up in a landfill and pollute the environment.

 

Something that I really don't want to do, especially if anything can be salvaged, reused or resold by somebody else.

 

[KhunLA]

24 minutes ago, billd766 said:

IMO smashing all the stuff up with a hammer will only lead yp a bigger pile of broken bits foe me to get rid of, and they will probably end up in a landfill and pollute the environment.

 

Something that I really don't want to do, especially if anything can be salvaged, reused or resold by somebody else.

 

There's plenty of folks on internet that will take old electronics, simply send to them.   If phone that old & bricked, no worries about the info / passwords, as you should have changed them already.  Not that they'd even bother to hack one of your apps / sites on the phone with or for your info.

 

Wife did some spring cleaning and sold a few old phones, netbooks and a laptop, I think to local folks.  She's been selling all kinds of stuff we been carting around from house to house.   

 

I told her if we didn't use it within the last 6 months, sell it, give it away, or trash it.