Virtual Identity Dialogue

Nothing related to identity management here I just wanted to use the blog to say that if you've got old personal computers lying around -- you should look into Staples recycling program. I used it over the weekend to clean out my stash of dead personal PCs that I had been trying to figure out what to do with. I'm not an overly concerned environmentalist by any means - though I do recognize that the chemicals in a system are potentially a pollution problem.

Though just as important - I figure the amount of copper and gold and similar metals in the system itself might now be worth as much as the system itself when it was new :).

And I stumbled upon that Staples will recycle them for you (using a 3rd party service) for $10. Sure free would be nice but there is a cost for Staples to handle all of this before the service picks it up and $10 seems reasonable to me.

Also they have a service in the store to transfer data from old systems to new. None of the systems I dropped off had anything left of them so I can't say anything about that service.

It really couldn't have been simpler. Drop off - pay the $10 (per PC/monitor) and go.

As they say "That was easy" :).

I really hope that this program gets the other similar chains to do similar programs.