Recycling Your Electronics – What you Need to Know

Recycling Your Electronics – What you Need to Know

How can you recycle your old electronics, and why should you do it?

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Title: Laszlo – Supernova
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50 Comments

  1. T U R T L E R A B B I T on July 12, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    I’m still in dilemma!
    I spend so much of my savings in fancy tech, only to see them break down or get extremely outdated. Also, the recycling programmes in my area offer me so less money for the once high priced devices I owned!

  2. Alaskan channel on July 12, 2020 at 7:32 pm

    this doesn’t answer how the actual circuit board is ground up melted down etc… monitors? plastic casing? metal casing?

  3. SammTheBird on July 12, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    London Drugs and Best Buy both have e-recycling stations.

  4. Phrench on July 12, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    I just shot my old PCs with a shotgun and smashed them with a hammer

  5. Adarsh Kumar on July 12, 2020 at 7:34 pm

    If anyone is wondering about the music in the opening of the video, it’s Chopin – Funeral March

  6. Osama purva kruv on July 12, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    am im the only one who has some blury white filter on the video stupid youtube

  7. Madcat 456 on July 12, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    F

  8. TheAvirus on July 12, 2020 at 7:41 pm

    Linus you could had game me that motherboard cause I don’t even own a motherboard or other pc parts I just own my potato laptop

  9. Will Hartford on July 12, 2020 at 7:41 pm

    Look no further, all your electronic recycling needs at Elemental Inc. http://www.Eleminc.com !! Check us out, we can do our part for the planet together!

  10. Owen on July 12, 2020 at 7:41 pm

    thank you linus good info

  11. Fabian Kastilan on July 12, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    Does my P5PQL AM motherboard count as a thing no-one will ever want? (Hint: Max 3 GB DDR2 Ram)

  12. Bdbxbxb bxbxbx on July 12, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    Godamnnn

  13. Martin English on July 12, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    Good advice! Electronics that go to landfill poisons the ground and groundwater! Recycle! Our City has a drop-off point at the reclamation yard for no cost. Electronics, batteries, light bulbs, used oil, and so on! My property tax funds this. 🙂

  14. RainbowFoxSilo on July 12, 2020 at 7:44 pm

    THATD NOT AN OLD MOTHERBOARD!

  15. Mike Evans on July 12, 2020 at 7:50 pm

    fact is the recycling centers make a ton of money off of electronic component that feed your charges just adore government is a bunch of fascists that likes to tax you to death

  16. Martin English on July 12, 2020 at 7:50 pm

    My city also has recycled pickup of paper, plastic, glass, and metal items with garbage pickup funded threw the water and sewer bill. I sell to recycle like aluminum and copper and even steel. And I compost so my garbage that goes to the landfill or incinerator id very little. Yard waste is also picked up to make mulch that is free to pick up at the landfill yard. Broken glass can be picked up or dropped off in a special bin to not pose a threat to sanitation workers. 🙂 Good video!

  17. Kadde026 Rågångsvägen sörby big boysen on July 12, 2020 at 7:52 pm

    1:51 I want old electronics please:((( i am Sixten Years and want old computers to experiment with and electronics to train on soliders g please anyone

  18. Phillip Brewster on July 12, 2020 at 7:52 pm

    Board sort .com pays a decent amount for greenboards

  19. Sam Wansitdabet on July 12, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    Aluminum is a precious metal apparently

  20. Trident Mobile on July 12, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    My 20 years old pc and wanna make something out of it

  21. Mr_Levi423 on July 12, 2020 at 7:53 pm

    Oh god old ltt videos camera quality makes me cringe

  22. Nick Bob on July 12, 2020 at 7:54 pm

    Sir, Make a video of interfacing USB WebCam from old Laptop with Arduino to make a mini camera…

  23. Phillip Mulligan on July 12, 2020 at 7:55 pm

    If you live in any Alberta city like Edmonton, Calgary and Red Deer your opens are really easy for disposal of old electronics. There is no excuse to not properly dispose of old electronics and batteries. Such services are already prepaid by you as you buy new electronics or PC parts so the service is very robust and effective. https://www.albertarecycling.ca/

  24. Gamerdweeb Entertainment on July 12, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    Everyone says wipe HDD from data, but I have nothing there valuable.

  25. Blub Konijn on July 12, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    Does working at Linus group have a sandal requirement?

  26. SuperAgentAB // AxelBelnas0123 on July 12, 2020 at 7:58 pm

    Turn your computer into bit coin mining money maker software. Requires 2012 intel core or amd a series or ryzen series cpu for cryptotab and winminer for gpu’s. Considering depends on your cpu power by hashes.

  27. jim bob on July 12, 2020 at 7:58 pm

    strip it native american style. no resistor unreused

  28. Pastafari on July 12, 2020 at 7:58 pm

    Here in Norway we have drop of points for like batteries in most general stores, mostly close to the can and bottle recycling machine thing

  29. any thing computer or windows related l on July 12, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    ld vista and xp 7 an 8 laptops are still plenty useable in 2018

  30. Not An Uploader on July 12, 2020 at 8:00 pm

    The stuff people leave in e-waste blows my mind. Entire working computers, and not terribly old ones! Give em to a thrift store or sell em for cheap!

  31. Matt B on July 12, 2020 at 8:01 pm

    You mean we aren’t supposed to start an open fire then burn our old motherboards to extract the precious earth metals and gold?

  32. Phillip Brewster on July 12, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    You can get paid for greenboards

  33. Nishe Siel on July 12, 2020 at 8:02 pm

    Baggy jeans, sandals with socks, those lame ass glasses…
    Yep, that’s definitely an IT guy.

  34. Azn on July 12, 2020 at 8:06 pm

    My teacher is so bad and doesn’t know what she is teaching to the point where she asked us to include what we learned about the sponser.. wtf.

  35. jdoveproductions on July 12, 2020 at 8:08 pm

    🤣🤣🤣🤣 Love that Funeral Bit

  36. Angelina Lansaw on July 12, 2020 at 8:08 pm

    Squeaky

  37. Sam Wansitdabet on July 12, 2020 at 8:12 pm

    I remember grub borking my bootsector so hard, that it was still borked after 3 wipes

  38. Corristo89 on July 12, 2020 at 8:14 pm

    Our company disposes of a lot of e-waste (computers, laptops, smartphones, servers, etc.), which we bring to a recycling center. I usually sift through the e-waste a day or two before, check what is working and what isn’t and take the working and still usable "e-waste" with me to spruce it up and sell. From the non-working e-waste I remove components (RAM, CPU, expansion cards, even laptop screens, etc.) and sell them on eBay. Our company still gets rid of the e-waste, I save working components from being destroyed, make a tidy profit and others get working hardware for a low price. And nothing is wasted.

  39. classyfenn on July 12, 2020 at 8:15 pm

    Press f for the mobo

  40. Marius Vasile on July 12, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    I would repair that Corsair V750 till it didnt have any original parts inside 😀

  41. Bdbxbxb bxbxbx on July 12, 2020 at 8:17 pm

    Next up xhexk out our amazing…..server rooooommmmm

  42. Sotaval Gaming on July 12, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    I have a old pc im not sure what to do with. It runs windows 7 4gigs ram, quad core Q600 2.4ghz. It was my first custom built that didnt work to well after a while because of blue screens.

  43. jaguar warrior on July 12, 2020 at 8:20 pm

    That intro was pretty sad man

  44. Ryan Heuer on July 12, 2020 at 8:22 pm

    Give me them ill BOINC them >:D

  45. Tim Clark on July 12, 2020 at 8:22 pm

    idiots

  46. WaterEarth Mud on July 12, 2020 at 8:24 pm

    were you reaching puberty – your voice keeps changing – normal to higher pitch back to normal???

  47. Exetior on July 12, 2020 at 8:25 pm

    Before deleting and formating the drive, you should remmeber:
    1- Backup all of them your files before formating
    2- If the old hard drive is still have OS, check the OS have something required ( product key on windows and more etc,… )
    Good luck of recycling hard drive!

  48. Music & Anime on July 12, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    Seemed like most of this video was advertising and there’s already advertising before I can begin to watch the video lol

  49. bean stalker on July 12, 2020 at 8:29 pm

    if you could make that motherboard work again would it be considered a zombie????

  50. Tridon3 on July 12, 2020 at 8:30 pm

    0:00 two members of al-Qaeda planting an IED along a known US patrol path, 2010 colorized.

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