For anything with Freon, you legally need to do "refrigerant recovery". Anything with a cord - cut off the cord and the plug from the cord. The cord is "Insulated Copper Wire" and worth about 10x the appliance. The cord could be stripped of insulation and the copper is now "#1 or #2 Copper" and worth about 2 to 2.5x what it was as "Insulated". There is other tear down stuff with almost every appliance.