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[quote user="EmilyA"]Thanks BaF; I knew they will take them, but wondered if there was anything greener, more useful around. I know in the UK there are companies who will take them to recycle in various ways.[/quote]

That's exactly what they do at the dechetterie.

Periodically a man with a van arrives and empties the container (a closed one) of all the electrical items and recycles as much as possible.

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[quote user="EmilyA"]Thanks BaF; I knew they will take them, but wondered if there was anything greener, more useful around. I know in the UK there are companies who will take them to recycle in various ways.

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From your posting : "We have a collection of old laptops, printers etc that we need to dispose of safely", I thought your concern was safety, now we learn it is that they should be recycled, as has been said your local dechetterie will be the best place but they will just get shipped to North Africa in a container for some very ungreen recycling.

Some departements have dedicated recycling centres where the long term unemployed are taken on as réinsertion, you may find that you have one.

 

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