It is a little hard to find on Costco’s web site, but the company has an interesting Trade-in & Recycle Program for electronic equipment. It looks like they’ve contractd with GreenSight Technologies to employ… a zero tolerance landfill policy meaning all of the material that is subject to recycling is disassembled by hand, carefully separated and eventually utilized as components for various raw material extraction processes (including smelting and refining). Shipping for both trade-in and recycle items is free. I haven’t tried this service yet. However, I have a bunch of old PCs that I’ve been wanting to safely dispose. This might be the way to do it.

Suggestion note: You might want to consider safely wiping the data or even removing the hard drive from your PC or Mac before recycling it.

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