Recycling of electronics

[lkn]

The stub on my blender broke off, not sure if it can be reattached, but the motor might be useable for something else.

 

Is there anywhere I can donate the thing? It’s a foreign brand, so unsure if it has any value as spare parts, but I feel bad about just throwing it out.

 

[lopburi3]

Don't you have junk pickers coming around?  Just give to them and they will recycle and probably get a few baht (as well as others as it cycles back).

[lkn]

9 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Don't you have junk pickers coming around?  Just give to them and they will recycle and probably get a few baht (as well as others as it cycles back).

 

I have not seen them. Our building does recycle, but that does not include electronics. I have previously asked building staff about the details of our recycling system, but they don’t really seem to know what happens to it, just that “someone picks it up”.

[lopburi3]

Expect they would be happy to take - most electronic and white goods/furniture type people will pay a few baht for items so mostly done one-on-one.  Here in Bangkok they drive pickup and come by at least daily announcing themselves with PA system.  But am sure the person who take empty plastic or paper would be happy to take anything small for resale to recycle shops.  

[bubblewrap]

I just replaced an old PC and monitor.  FIL took it off somewhere and probably got a few baht for it. 

 

Though first I removed the hard drive and smashed the disk to smithereens, just to be on the safe side.  

[cardinalblue]

 take all my recycling incl electronics to the place i call green valley road - the road that runs between maejo road and 107 road..

 

Green valley because green valley golf course side entrance is on this road - near sansai gov hospital but across the street and headed west....  

 

 

[Bantex]

Thais are experts at adapting old broken or worn out items.

There are three meat stalls at my local open air market where one butcher adapted an old motor to rotate slowly above his stall. The motor slowly turns bamboo poles with strips of coloured plastic hanging from them to keep the flies away whilst his meat sits fly free on a bed of ice.

The other two meat stalls now attract all of the flies.

 

Guess which meat stall gets the most customers?

[sharktooth]

3 hours ago, Bantex said:

Thais are experts at adapting old broken or worn out items.

There are three meat stalls at my local open air market where one butcher adapted an old motor to rotate slowly above his stall. The motor slowly turns bamboo poles with strips of coloured plastic hanging from them to keep the flies away whilst his meat sits fly free on a bed of ice.

The other two meat stalls now attract all of the flies.

 

Guess which meat stall gets the most customers?

 

The cheapest one

[Aforek]

Just put near one of the green bins in the street, someone will pick it , as said above people will know what to do with it

[Beats56]

I recycle everything I can. have a gal that comes around and weights them and give me few baht. the only thing I can't find is where to recycle the dead batteries. I hate to have them go in some landfill site. 

 

[tracker]

I saw a battery collection box in the serenade (or something) section of an ais shop. Don't know if they do this on a country wide level. The shop I talk about is in central salaya.

[lkn]

1 hour ago, Beats56 said:

I recycle everything I can. have a gal that comes around and weights them and give me few baht. the only thing I can't find is where to recycle the dead batteries. I hate to have them go in some landfill site. 

 

 

 

Kad Suan Kaew has a recycle bin for batteries, but it’s very hidden.

 

When coming from the parking lot, I think on the second floor, and the entrance the furthest in the back, there is a container for batteries.

 

Not sure what happens with them — before I found this container, I had asked a bunch of Thais, and no-one had any idea, the information desk in Rimping offered to throw them out for me (in the regular trash).

 

As for my blender, I talked with the building staff about when our recyclable items gets picked up, which surprisingly they did not know, but they offered to take the blender off my hands, hopefully it does end somewhere where it gets properly recycled.