Local Freecycle group here has someone that collects old spare parts and builds working computers out of them ... which he then donates back to freecycle, so individuals or charities in need of a free computer can pick them up.

See if there's something similar happen somewhere out there, where you are?

Honestly I thought i could make a few bucks of them since I heard there are some companies that buy used electronics, turns out it's only true for relatively new functioning stuff or industrial scale scraps.

I would donate or gift the lot, but I don't know anyone who'd take that stuff in.

Guess it's recycling or watiting for cyberpunk to get trendy. Alight, where should I mail it? =D

Mmmh, how about spud guns? are there laws on that?

Not that I know, I've tried to google something like that but found nothing. sometimes I think this country is still stuck in the dark ages.

try this http://www.biteb.org/biteb/index.asp?idPagina=23 or http://www.trashware.info/

Well, I stand corrected. Thanks!

E-waste recycling is starting to take off around here, with a couple local companies getting into the biz. My wife's company is large enough that they get a lot of deals for employees and such, and they also run a boatload of charity drives. Twice a year they collect e-waste and put the proceeds toward local charities and we just dropped off a whole mess of stuff last week.

That's a lot of what I dropped off. Who needs a joystick adapter card for an ISA slot? Mid-90s SoundBlaster card? 14.4 modem? RAM for some Pentium II-era motherboard? Nobody.

Our Goodwill stores have an agreement with Dell to recycle all electonics. Your state may have something similar.

I put them in my closet. They keep the underwear gnomes at bay.

I tried that, but it just encouraged the left sock fairies to take up residence. I ended up having to install a copy of Daikatana to keep them at bay.

Dude, get that out of there NOW! The demons that ate John Romero's soul could show up at any time! I hear they all talk like Stevie Case, I'd say an annoying Stevie Case, but I don't want to be redundant;)

For broken hardware that is not repairable, I strip the copper from it. Like drills and such, I'll take it apart and remove the copper from the motor and the power cord. You'd be surprised how much money you can get for the copper at a recycler. The rest of the electronics is taken to a free dropoff for recycling.

Obsolete hardware, but still working, is donated to either Goodwill or The Salvation Army.

Whatever you do, don't just throw it in the trash. There's a lot of nasty chemicals that go into electronics manufacturing and its better to have that stuff properly disposed of.