PCBs in the capacitors as well.
They do fetch shred price at the least and my local non ferrous yard pays slightly higher.
Here is what I do with monitors. If I am getting some e-scrap from someone, I will handle them at no cost to my customer. It costs me nothing to properly dispose of them except for a small amount of gas.
I snip the wires and after that I am done with them. I then take them to my goodwill reconnect location which is close. I leave everything in them. Why? So there is some meat on the bone. If there is some meat on the bone there is a much better chance of them continuing this endeavor.
THe nearest I can figure is that reconnect is NOT subsidized by the government or some philanthropist, but by Dell. Dell is taking the brunt of this for 2 reasons.
First and foremost,....there is money in recycling old electronicss as we all know and if you have ever dropped off any monitors at goodwill and helped them carry them inside, then you know that the bins they go in have a bunch of other escrap as well. They take it all and if they lose a little on the monitors they surely make it up on the computers that are in that bin. A stripped monitor will surely cost them money and if all they got was bunch of stripped monitors then they would have stopped this some time ago. They are at the bare minimum recouping their expense of running this recycling program as far as I can tell.
Reason number 2......It makes them look good. What an awesome pairing. Dell and Goodwill recycling all of your electronics for FREE. It actually makes both entities look like saints in this day and age.
And yes, I said I snip the cords and deliver to help this program. It helps them keep it going, and makes me feel green all over.
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