Electronic waste recycling

Computer recycling is the practice of salvaging useable components from obsolete electronic devices. The term is also used to refer to the practice of safely disposing of electronic devices, which often contain toxic materials and therefore must be handled in a different manner than normal waste. Computer recycling may also be about when people rebuild old computers or laptops and then sell them, they often find computers that are obsolete, that dont have any monitors, Hard Drives, motherboards, etc., when people re-build computers is often called refurbishing, people have probably been doing this since the 1980s when the Personal Computer era started.

See also

• Electronic recycling
• E-waste
• Green computing
• Recycling