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New e-recycler Swapngreen will buy your old electronics

Recycling e-waste is good for the environment, but it must also be good business, because there are now so many options for folks to get their old electronics processed properly and even get some cash back.

Here’s a new one called SwapnGreen. They will buy your broken or used electronics including cell phones, iPods, iPhones, smart phones, MP3 players, PDAs, MP3 players. They’ll even pay for shipping.

Other similar services include: BuyMyTronics.comYouRenewMyBoneYard and Gazelle (and even Costco/Gazelle).

yourenew.com pays you to recycle your old electronics

YouRenew.com logoRecycling your old electronics is really becoming easier, as more services spring up to cash in on the growing industry. Yes, cashing in, because they make money from re-selling the parts and raw materials. But I don’t want to rain on their parade, because it’s a win-win for everyone. You can get some cash for your device and they get to run a profitable business.

Take YouRenew.com – they even pay for the shipping of your old gadget and then pay you depending on what it’s worth. For example, a 1st gen 4GB iPhone will get you $94. Nice. Naturally, the older it is, the faster the price goes down, but hey, you’re recycling and not tossing a bunch of hazardous materials into a landfill, and the price on that is much higher!

Another service that we covered previously is Gazelle.

Chess Set made of recycled auto parts

It’s a bit hard to tell from the picture, but the pieces in this chess were made entirely of old parts from auto and mechanical parts! For example, the bishop’s head is a spark plug and the rook’s head is a cog. Pretty styling.

Gimme!

Price: $207.95
(Please note prices are subject to change and the listed price is correct to the best of our knowledge at the time of posting)

Recycle Your Old Gizmos at MyBoneYard.com

The Geeks came across an interesting site for Geeks with too many Gizmos and Gadgets that they no longer need. MyBoneYard.com allow eco-conscience consumers to recycle userd and newly upgraded Gizmos in a simple and safe way.

Using MyBoneYard.com, consumers can recycle those computers that are far less hip than today’s flat-screens and those cell phones that have been replaced by Blackberrys or iPhones…for FREE while getting rewarded for their eco-friendly efforts.

Check out www.myboneyard.com to learn more about the newest revolutionary way to recycle used electronics, and how consumers can get rewarded in the process.

California Passes Law Requiring Cell Phone Retailers to Recycle Phones

I may be a gadget/technology-junkie, but I’m definitely concerned about the environment and do whatever I can to recycle as much as possible. I was pretty happy to see that my home state (California) has put into effect a law requiring any store selling cell phones to take them back (without charge to the end-consumer) for recycling and/or proper disposal. This also goes for rechargeable batteries, which are pretty toxic. Oh, and this law took effect July 1. Ok, so they are lagging a bit in making this better known, but at least it’s a good start. Earlier in the year, the state made it illegal for consumers to throw most electronics into the trash. So don’t go tossing your old VCR into the dumpster!

Trash it? Recycle it? No… Freecycle it!

Freecycle.org is a nonprofit, grassroots organization that brings together folks looking to get or get rid of “treasure” and/or “trash” (depending on your perspective). It does this quite simply through the use of free Yahoo! Groups mailing lists that are geared to local geographic areas. Freecycle boasts over half a million users in over 1,500 cities. This is a great alternative to throwing otherwise useful stuff into garbage dumps or even to recycling it. Start your own group today!

Is 2012 the Year of the 3D Printer?

It looks like 2012 could be the year the 3D printer breaks out. As prices creep down towards $1,000 per unit, 3D printers are now within the reach of small design companies, and it may not be long before they’re in all our homes too. But is it time to buy? Here are three things to consider before becoming an early adopter of 3D printing technology.

How to get a new iPhone 4G for ‘free’

Recycle!The latest iPhone 4G is about to be launched any day (remember the brouhaha about the missing prototype?) and we’ll bet you’ll be slobbering over that one too. 😉 Sooo… how can you (potentially) get your mitts on that one. For free? Or with a nice discount?

Pretty simple actually – Recycle your old one for dollars. So you won’t get the new iPhone for free if it’s the $200 model, but if you get about $100 for your old model, then that’s not a discount to sniff at.

Some of the recycling sites that will pay you big bucks for your old iPhone (and lots of other electronics too) include BuyMyTronics, MyBoneYard and Gazelle.

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