Hello from Eastern Mass

Originally Posted by Kevin99Johnson

Thanks, I know TVs and monitors are annoying, especially the CRT ones, my town trash pickup will take them for free if I call and tell them that I have em to pick up, no limit on it either, but no idea where it goes or what happens to it, I THINK it gets taken care of responsibly, but not totally sure.

I know I can get more online than in person most of the time, but not sure about if my volume is enough or not right now to warrant mailing it in, especially when calculating the cost to mail it in. I don't currently have a ton of space to store up massive amounts that would likely make the mailing in worth it. The smaller stuff, like RAM and processors, probably worth it, but mobos etc, not sure it is worth the mail cost for me.

So far most of the electrical wire I have has looked like solid, but when I strip it is turns out to be stranded so that is annoying but it is what it is.



thanks!

A couple things

I don't strip the wire, and I am assuming you probably shouldn't either by the amount you have. There are vids on youtube that in some circumstance you actually get LESS money by stripping it then if you just leave it whole and you've used your time to strip it. The prices are close enough that I never strip wire and just turn it in as is... just my opinion.

If you don't have storage space, and don't get enough to think you can fill a pallet, then e-waste probably won't be super profitable or a good use of you time. I work out of a 1 car detached garage and have sent off 3 or so pallets this year of e-waste, it piles up sooner than you would think. I take apart everything right away so I am only storing the valuable/smaller parts like the ram, cpus and mobos, the cases go to the local scrapyard.

Unfortunately getting the value out of electronics is hard work, and takes time and knowledge. Finding a local buyer for the stuff, at least for any decent amount seems impossible. So if you dont have the time, storage space, and amount to justify shipping a pallet, probably isnt worth your time then. at the very least you could rip out the ram and cpu quick and send the rest to the local scrapyard just as light iron if you need to move it through quickly and get SOME value out of it.


also with 1 min og looking on google maps I found

https://www.framinghamsalvage.com/
Mandracchia and Mattuchio, Boston MA

and a few others, so they are out there, just gotta find them.