| Recycling is becoming a real big thing now, so it’s | | | | it’s just oh-so convenient! Packaging your old |
| time we all became a part of it. We’ve all heard | | | | laptop and trundling down to the post office to pay |
| of sites such as that take our old and broken laptops | | | | extortionate mailing fees is a thing of the past, as |
| off our hands for cash, but why should we do this? | | | | nowadays you get a shipping box delivered right to |
| Well of course if you care about the world we live in | | | | your door, and picked up again whenever is most |
| you should recycle, and do you need more of an | | | | convenient for you, so you can make the most of |
| excuse to do it if you’re actually getting money | | | | the time you gained by not having to worry about |
| for it to? But really, what happens when a laptop is | | | | packing up your old laptop. |
| recycled? | | | | 88% of used laptops in America end up in landfills. |
| Well first it’s important to know about what | | | | This needs to change, because by dumping and |
| makes up laptops. Mainly, laptops contain things such | | | | throwing away our old laptops, we’re seriously |
| as toxic chemicals, carcinogens and heavy metals. If | | | | damaging the environment, because the toxic |
| these are all disposed of improperly, they could do | | | | elements found in laptops, such as mercury, can be |
| some serious damage to the environment, as well as | | | | released into the surrounding soil and groundwater. |
| us to if we’re not careful! Laptop recycling | | | | You might wonder to yourself Well, surely one laptop |
| isn’t exactly new, so why aren’t we all | | | | won’t do that much damage…’ Putting |
| doing it? Well a lot of us find that getting our laptops | | | | aside for the moment the volume of people throwing |
| recycled can be quite tricky. | | | | away laptops, it’s important to know that only a |
| Well that’s where specially designed websites | | | | fraction of a teaspoon of toxic mercury has the |
| come in, that can take your laptop of your hands, | | | | potential to contaminate a 70 acre lake! Think of the |
| and deal with it in a number of ways in order to help | | | | contamination 50 laptops could cause, or 100, or even |
| our environment. | | | | thousands! |
| If your laptop is in quite good condition, you’re | | | | If that isn’t reason enough to sell your laptop on |
| just updating, then websites such as Laptop Trader | | | | to be recycled for cash, then let’s not forget |
| Express can sometimes manage to sell on your | | | | that disposing of your old laptop this way is totally |
| laptop to somebody who just needs a laptop for one | | | | risk free! A lot of sites, including Laptop Trader |
| low maintenance purpose. | | | | Express use a secure PayPal system that means |
| If it’s not in such great condition, it could also be | | | | your money will be transferred directly to you with |
| stripped down of it’s main components and sold | | | | no risk of losing your card details, as well as this you |
| on so that your old laptop components can be made | | | | have the peace of mind that your laptop is being |
| into new laptops, recycling at it’s best! | | | | disposed of safely and effectively. |
| But another reason to get recycling is because | | | | |