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I wuz thinking, there are about 60,000 people living my area and there is one little electronic waste disposal service at the library.
Where are people really dumping their unwanted phones and other electronic goods?
Officeworks accept them too dont they? Maybe other stores too? But I hazard a guess they go into drawers or the bin.
Officeworks have stopped accepting batteries and general ewaste, at least the ones in the city.
Ahh did not know that.
aldi has battery disposal π
I use the specific bins at the transfer station (tip).
If my electrical goods are genuinely beyond repair they go out to the hard rubbish and strangely disappear before the collection day. Old phones which have a still usable camera get set up with the Alfred app and become a security camera. Any non usable ones go to the box at the front of my local Woolies along with my dead batteries. Some repair places take old laptops etc as part of a trade (like Renewd) and presumably use them for parts.
That'd be my Opa; he'll take your broken appliances and electrical goods and repair it in his shed so he can learn how it works. π
Phones, they usually keep in the junk drawer or a box at home.
Other electronic goods.....recycling bin or regular rubbish.
Most people don't care to be honest.
It must be this.
Hopefully not with discharged batteries... apparently some Samsung phone batteries bulge and expand after a while in a state of discharge.
Supermarkets near me have battery bins. Otherwise the post label ybing already mentioned.
There's one at most tips.
Mobile Muster has drop off points at lots of phone shops, you can also get a free shipping label from AusPost. They take phones, phone accessories, modems, smart watches etc. but do not accept every type of ewaste.
IKEA will take light bulbs and batteries. Officeworks will take ink cartridges and storage media (CDs, hard drives).
Sounds like you've already checked out your local council's service. City of Melbourne will accept larger ewaste at a few locations. If you live in an apartment building you might be able to book an ewaste wheelie bin.
I will accept a good CRT display, or a Commodore 64 (working or non), for free... please? π
Hey can't blame a retro gaming fan for trying π
I'm good for a handful of micro USB cables, that's about it.
Ha I have enough of those things to dive into a mountain of them Scrooge McDuck-style π
I looked up the council web site and they include toasters, vacuums, printers, irons, etc etc as ewaste . I don't see any of that stuff at the ewaste centre.
Officeworks and supermarkets, local buy nothing