How to Rescue Vintage Equipment from E-Waste Recyclers | VCFMW 19 (2024)

Tons of vintage systems go into e-waste every year; is there any way to save them? In this talk, Chris Skeeles discusses how to approach and deal with your local e-waste facility for the purpose of acquiring computer equipment for the purpose of refurbishing. An e-waste recycler himself, Chris will speak to the do's and don'ts of dealing with e-waste facilities increasing their chances of building a working relationship.

Chris owns and operates boardsort.com, a leading computer recycling service, and has decades of experience dealing with the rescuing, refurbishing and the unfortunate, albeit necessary, scrapping and recycling of computers. Boardsort can be found at https://boardsort.com/
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