Recycle!

Today in metro Detroit, Best Buy hosted Great Lakes Electronics Corporation drive to collect unwanted electronic equipment. They'll be taking apart the old gadgets to recycle as much of the materials as possible. They'll shred any hard drives and other memory devices to protect the donors' privacy.

I contributed a dead computer and monitor, a stack of "A" diskettes, a cordless telephone, a digital camera too old and primitive to be of interest to anyone, a printer, a pair of speakers, an external modem, a switchbox from back in the days when computers had only one peripheral connection, a VCR, and a bag full of cables of uknown provenance. All that junk had been sitting in my basement for years because I didn't want to add it to a landfill. So thank you, Great Lakes Electronics Corporation!

You can tell from the photo that the "least wanted" electronic gadgets were old computer monitors. I'd guess that large flatscreen monitors have really caught on.