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News by location Posted: 30 Oct 2010 09:18 PM PDT Catherine Pritchard Q: Is there anywhere in Fayetteville to take broken or outdated electronic items for disposal rather than just putting them in the trash? I'm referring to computers, TVs and the like. - L.L., Fayetteville A: Yes. A number of places will recycle your old computer equipment, including Cumberland County. You can take the equipment to the recycling areas at any of the county's container sites or at the Ann Street landfill. For locations, hours and other information, go to co.cumberland.nc.us/solid_ waste_mgmt/container_ sites.aspx. But the county doesn't recycle other electronic equipment. To do that, you'd have to go to a store that has an electronics recycling program. Locally, those include Best Buy, Office Depot and Staples. Best Buy's program accepts most sorts of consumer electronics, including tube TVs and monitors up to 32 inches; flat-panel TVs and monitors up to 60 inches; DVD players; home and car audio equipment; cell phones; and MP3 players. It accepts computers if the hard drive is removed, something it provides directions for or that its staff will do for $10. And it even takes vacuums and fans. It doesn't accept console TVs of any size or tube TVs or monitors that are more than 32 inches. The store charges a $10 fee for TVs and monitors other than its own private-label products. But it gives $10 gift cards in exchange for the fees. Best Buy permits people to bring in up to three items for recycling per day. Office Depot's Tech Recycling Service accepts such things as computer equipment and monitors, small TVs, VCRs and DVD players, phones and cameras. But you have to deliver it in a box that you've purchased from the store for $5 to $15. There are three sizes of boxes, with the smallest holding about 20 pounds of equipment and the largest about 60 pounds. You can put as many electronics items in a box as will fit. Staples says its recycling program accepts all sorts of office technology, including computers and monitors, printers and fax machines. There's a $10 fee per large item in most cases though the chain recycles Dell products for free. - C.P. Q: If your phone number is on the national Do Not Call registry, how can politicians call day and night with their insipid messages? - L.S., Fayetteville A: Because the registry's rules don't apply to them. Sorry. Other telemarketers not bound by those rules include charities, telephone surveyors and companies with which you have an existing business relationship. - C.P. Live Wire seeks to answer questions of general interest and consumer topics within two weeks. Initials are used to identify questioners when names are given. Contact Live Wire at livewire@fayobserver.com, http://blogs.fayobserver.com/livewire or 486-3516. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php Five Filters featured article: Beyond Hiroshima - The Non-Reporting of Falluja's Cancer Catastrophe.

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