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Broken printer recycling

  • 20-09-2011 8:51pm
    #1
    splendid101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I'm just wondering what I should do with a non-functioning printer. Don't know what's wrong with it or if it is repairable but I have another better one so no need for it any more.

    I understand that shops have to take these off you when you're buying a new one but can I just go to PC World for example and give it to them, I doubt it somehow.

    I could always just chuck it in the bin but wouldn't like the thought of it (very gradually) rotting away in a landfill.

    Thanks,

    Alan


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  • #2
    Macha
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 6,376 Mod ✭✭✭✭Macha


    Hi Alan,

    From an environmental point of view, the best option would be to try to get it repaired:

    http://www.pcworld.com/article/185111/10_biggest_printer_problems_and_how_to_fix_them.html

    Google is your friend. Or try to bring it back to where you bought it to see if they can fix it.

    Under WEEE regulations, you can to bring it back to where you bought it and they will have to accept it free of charge to properly recycle it.

    Or if you live in Dublin, you could see if Camara will take it off you.

    Whatever you do, please don't put it in your black bin. It will end up in a landfill, where the toxic chemicals will slowly leach out and cost a lot of money to clean up.

    Macha


  • #3
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,596 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Bring it to the recycling centre the next time you are passing.


    If the printer is an cheap inkjet then it is disposable in the sense that the cartridges cost more than the printer.
    at the other end of the scale a full service kit including fuser and a new photoconductor would be the guts of the replacement cost of many laser printers.

    so no point in bringing a broken printer into camara
    even if it could be fixed you still have the problem of getting affordable ink/toner in places where disposable income is far far lower than here


  • #4
    splendid101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 655 ✭✭✭splendid101


    Thanks for the replies lads.


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