We recommend backing up your data and then erasing your computer's storage before donating, selling, or recycling your machine. Best Buy has a pretty extensive and well-known trade-in program that ...

Whether you're a tech junkie or a casual user who's seen every era of computing, you likely have plenty of old tech ephemera in your home. Maybe it's a desk drawer or closet (or even a tote) filled ...

To donate to Goodwill, use Dell's How to Recycle page to find a drop-off location. You can also rid of your old computer through Best Buy, either over the mail or in person. To recycle the computer, ...

When I finally admitted my old desktop and wheezing inkjet were never coming back into regular use, I assumed getting rid of them would be expensive or a hassle. Instead, I discovered that I could ...

If you have a growing graveyard of old printers and laptops in your closet, you're not alone. A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us are hoarding old electronics, probably because ...

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Your computer keyboard just like other things you own won't be usable anymore in the future. It's either its electronic component went haywire or it's just too outdated for your needs. You might think ...

Government efforts to help us recycle our old computer equipment seem to have stalled. Back in March 2003, there was great fanfare for a House of Representatives bill known as the National Computer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WALTER ZERLA / GettyImages If you have a keyboard that's outdated or beyond repair, think twice before tossing it into a dumpster.

Our basement bedroom has a huge desktop computer that we never, ever touch -- except to dust. Why are we keeping it? A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us are hoarding old electronics, ...

My basement is currently a graveyard of old/disfunctioning/unused computer and A/V equipment. How do you guys get rid of this stuff?<BR><BR>It'd be a shame to throw most of it away, but I don't know ...