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Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat May 10, 14 10:48 am Post subject: Old printers and scanners.
Is there anything of use in them? If I take them to the tip then they will presumably go in their pile of WEEE, but what happens after? Can I reliably expect them to be sensibly recycled? Or are they likely to go out to one of those tips in Africa we discussed on another thread...

oldish chris

Joined: 14 Jun 2006
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Posted: Sat May 10, 14 11:25 am Post subject:
probably not. If they are taken to an official waste disposal site, I'm fairly sure that they will be responsibly put into some recycling stream or other, as per EU regulations (as forced on us by those damned civilised, responsible, forward thinking and otherwise disgusting foreigners ).

Hairyloon

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Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat May 10, 14 12:09 pm Post subject:
ah. You mean they'll get sent back to China?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Location: yes

Posted: Sat May 10, 14 1:30 pm Post subject:
old printers can be converted to a moving target holder for fairground style "duck shoots" with a plastic pellet gun

oldish chris

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Posted: Sat May 10, 14 2:25 pm Post subject:

Hairyloon wrote:

ah. You mean they'll get sent back to China?

Old printers and scanners will never get that far. They need a driver.

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
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Posted: Sat May 10, 14 3:03 pm Post subject:

oldish chris wrote:

Hairyloon wrote:

ah. You mean they'll get sent back to China?

Old printers and scanners will never get that far. They need a driver.

brettgilbert77

Joined: 09 May 2014
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Posted: Sun May 11, 14 5:38 pm Post subject: Re: Old printers and scanners.

Hairyloon wrote:

Is there anything of use in them?
If I take them to the tip then they will presumably go in their pile of WEEE, but what happens after?
Can I reliably expect them to be sensibly recycled? Or are they likely to go out to one of those tips in Africa we discussed on another thread...

The printers contain some very useful stepper motors. They can be used to make DIY CNC machines, 3D printers and other exciting electronics projects.
The motors and controllers from scanners an be used to make similar devices
The lights from scanners can be used in some cool projects too.

CNC:
https://www.instructables.com/id/CNC-out-of-a-scanner-cheap/

Scanner light:
https://www.instructables.com/id/Recycled-Scanner-Hack!/

I'm sure there are many clever folks on here who an come up with all manner of uses.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sun May 11, 14 6:59 pm Post subject:
Cheers. I'll have a look at that later...

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
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Posted: Mon May 12, 14 7:35 am Post subject:
You may have a local company who refurbish/recycle this sort of thing. They will refurbish what they can to sell on or use for charities and the rest they take as much out of as possible. They don't give you anything for the things, but they take them away and make as much use of them as possible. We got rid of some old stuff that way.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Mon May 12, 14 10:26 am Post subject:

Mistress Rose wrote:

You may have a local company who refurbish/recycle this sort of thing.

For what I have got, I cannot see that it would be economic, unless they are employing slaves.
You can buy a new all-in-one printer/scanner for <�30 so I can't see anyone paying more thn �15 for a refurbished one...

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 16004

Posted: Tue May 13, 14 6:50 am Post subject:
When something in uneconomic they recycle all they can. The copper, gold and other things in them have some value.

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