I've never bought a new battery from a legitimate source who wouldn't take the old one and also give you a credit for it!

I also have never bought a stolen one.

Try AutoZone.

Maple is right. Try any auto parts store. They get 'core exchange' credits back with the batteries you turn in. Same with used oil. Nearly all oil change facilities will accept your used oil.

This is one thing the town does that I agree to. We have enough trash on the streets now from garbage pick-up without another group of salvage trucks coming through and with the terrible side of the street messes. People put everything out there to salvage---even old trees.
Also, hardly a day goes by we don't have those creaky old trucks lumbering through due to the town allowing more than one company picking up trash on different days!
I would rather have door to door salesmen! Or JWs. Or Mormons. Or Church Ladies!

There is an extremely nicely kept salvage center on McIntosh trail off route 74 S. One trip a month to there can't be a burden to anyone except the Defense Secretary possibly! (The street is Kelly until the dam then it is McIntosh Trail. (or MacIntosh, maybe.) I don't know whether the Chief was Scot or Irish!
No garbage stickers or tax charges please. We are sufficiently like the Germans enough!

Why is that?
There is nothing in my hard drive that could hurt me or help anyone else!
I don't put SS numbers etc., there.

protected in some way, we would not want anyone else to get to those wonderful poems, blogs or pontifications that we have read here. Would hate to think that someone got them off your computer and had them published. They would surely make the best seller list and then that person would get wealthy off of all your hard work. That would be a shame. Shalom.

There's more than one way to safely dispose of an old computer.

Removing the hard drive is effective. Physically destroying it afterwards is sure to do the job. But less drastic measures can be used also.

Reformatting the drive ought to work. Every computer has a so-called BIOS, a program which runs briefly when the computer is first turned on, and which normally gives you a couple of seconds to press on a key to get to stop right there and give you a chance to work with it. If you reformat the whole disk, everything ought to be erased completely. That might be sufficient.

If working with an operating system, deleting files and then defragmenting the drive might cause new information to be overwritten over the old one, effectively wiping it out. That, however, might possibly leave gaps where no new information comes in to overwrite the old stuff. At least this does not destroy any part of a computer you might intend to give to some other reliable person (like your parents or grandparents), and it can preserve valuable software programs on it.

One method which ought to work is taking out the hard drive and then running a strong magnet all over it. That should mess up the hard drive pretty well. Then, if you're really neurotic about this, you can put a hammer to it, although these drives are pretty tough. After you've done that, throwing your drive away buried in your stinky trash ought to do the job, as I doubt the trash collectors are the type that would bother salvaging the drive to steal your identity.

I failed to mention that very important point. Thanks for brining to our attention the hard drive security issue. I removed them from my units and cut them up in our shop with a metal cut-off saw. And like Cy mentions below... never sell one off in garage sale. It's not worth it.

I threw away an otherwise perfectly good laptop case because of the embroidered logo of a certain institution on its flap. I was very careful to ensure that I emptied the case of all contents first.

Later, I realized that I had left my flash drive clipped on the strap! It included a document with a detailed map to the $5,000,000.00 that D.B. Cooper buried in Utah.

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Back in Nagasaki

Boy, you are cleaning house from your old employment!

Do you want to continue college instruction?

Changed the second word by adding Un at the beginning, then I followed the instructions in the map and it lead me to Caotaiu D's! where I was given a coupon for 3 breaded shrimp, cole slaw, 2 hushpuppies and a small diet coke. All I ended up with was a case of indigestion. Didn't realize old D. B. was such a joker. What is a flash drive?? And where do you use it?

on second thought, don't even do it. It's not worth it.
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