HOW TO PREP YOUR LAPTOP FOR RECYCLE & DONATION
About 320 tons of gold and 7,500 tons of silver are used to produce personal computers worldwide every year. However, it’s much cheaper to recover precious metals from recycled electronics than to mine and process raw ore from the ground. Not to mention the pollution and emissions that come with mining and metallurgy. The EPA reports say if we recycle one million laptops then we can save the energy equivalent to what 3,500 homes use in a year. This shows there is clearly much to be gained from recycling your old laptop. But before you do so, there are some things you should keep in mind first. How to Prepare Your Laptop for Recycling 1. Backup With cloud services we have today, backing up your files onto an external hard disk might seem like going the extra mile. However, it’s always a good idea for you to do a physical backup before recycling your laptop. 2. Deauthorize Applications like Adobe Creative and iTunes limit the number of devices that can use the same account. Before ...