What's it worth?

Recycling: It's All About the Bling Bling

The purpose of this page is to keep tabs on what our recyclers have been paying and/or charging us for different materials. Curious volunteers, community members and Free Geeks in other areas may find this information especially illuminating. We also hope to use this information to do a better job projecting our financial picture month-to-month (as it often takes several weeks after a pickup before recyclers pay us, or bill us), as part of a continuing discussion about how to make recycling an efficient source of revenue for FG. Information will be sorted by vendor, and then broken down by material type.

Bear eCycling

• What it takes:
• What it's worth:

GreenWall

• What it takes and what it's worth:
• Wire: .?/pound;
• Power cords: .28/pound;
• Ribbon cable: .28/pound;
• UPSes: .14/lb

Hallmark

• What it takes and what it's worth:
• Hard drive Controller boards $2
• High Processor ("High grade CPU" on statement?) $30-$35/lb
• Low Processor ("Low grade CPU" on statement): $10 -$12/lb

Total Reclaim

• What it takes: Monitors
• What it's worth: We pay to have them picked up.
• What it takes: TVs
• What it's worth: We pay to have them picked up.