Amazing What People Throw Away - Making Money From Peoples “Rubbish” 

Always why I never buy a new car, you can buy one a couple years old with very little miles on it because it was a lease return. If you have something you don't want anymore, there are probably many people less privileged than you that will gladly accept a 5 year old laptop or iPhone. I try giving as much as I can to my local donation center.

I totally agree, I’m going to fix up an old iPhone 4 in the future because of its elegant design

True

More like one mans dick is another mans willy LOL

@@scepter0143 Agreed, and new cars price will lower by alot in a short amount of time so its kinda waste of money lol

Most of them are actually paid to say that, so yeah😂

@@enosmisu6170 they are part of the problem...

I call it unnovation. :D

So true...

Records, guitars, amps, pedals, and especially for me my laptops and computers

Food 🤦🏾‍♂️ chairs

whoever threw out that tv has way too much money

@@088O more money then brains lol. The box for the new tv was with it lol. They dropped old one jammed buttons so kept turning on and off and said screw this go buy another tv toss the old one.

I wanted to show my mom a good deal I found online. It's a Dell Inspiron 530 for 100 RON. Sadly she didn't let my buy it and said that it's of poor quality but I'm still tempted to buy it once I save money that was given by my relatives.

Yes, but what it is useful for?

@@rivciks5045to play retro games

And I found an old dell latitude that won’t detect a hard drive so I reconnected the HDD and it finally worked

@@AlexgmrNokia yes, but what you will be doing with all that old stuff? It’s useless now. I did also have a very old laptop in my possession. I donated it to a technical school. At least it will be having a new purpose now and serve as a learning tool for students who will be harvesting its parts and learning about electronics

they could, but it’s unfortunately cheaper for them to make new parts than recycle old parts. :/

They wont change 😂

Capitalism doesn't care. Many companies have a tunnel vision for short-term gain (profit) and little to no sight of the long-term consequences (waste, pollution, impact on human heath).

The thing is, that manufacturing new is a reliable standardised process which can be done on a large scale. Recycling is a lot less reliable, since the raw materials are incorporated in all kind of other materials, which often are even toxic or become im the process of recycling.

@@maggnet4829 It basically about entropy, isn't it ? raw materials extract have very low entropy, they're simple and ordered chains of atoms, so they can be easily extracted and refined and processed chemically at scale. But when they are made into a complex device, all of the elements are combined into a highly entropic blob of chemical complexity that so hard to extract, even biological life, which is adapted at processing small complex chemical things struggle to recover the materials from our trash, its too much concentrated and too much different elements all mixed together. Its a battle for ever higher entropy, perhaps we should just try to make less landfill items, by forcing things to be repairable, or forcing people to properly dispose of things. But I don't see it working if you don't attack the supply side of things. Eventually the problem kind of solves itself as the cost of mining becomes too great, for example 85% of the aluminum is already recycled, and the rest isn't recycled because its in use, a small 5% or 10% is still lost, but that's better than 99% being lost. And then there's plastic, perhaps we should just burn all the plastic in closed autoclaves (so the toxic fumes are contained, and only harmless CO2 goes out), and extract all the other non-organic materials, there's no other way to extract resources from plastic, plastics aren't recyclable and they are hard to separate.

Now it gives me the idea to ask if they have any laptops/PCs at the local recycling center

@@Logilype They do have at mine, but they won't let me take things from the crates unfortunately! The local council are worried about legal issues if someone electrocutes themselves! 😒

That is awesome, maybe try to get some recipients involved, could be an interesting learning experience for them and save a bit of time for you

This is an amazing example to set

Really really cool! Good stuff man

@@1seb11 lmao, I can respect that. Custom ROMs can extend life of an old device too. I switched to S10e from S5, where I used Android 11 Lineage rom and now S10 series devices got an official Lineage support as well.

@Kanaba Nakamura How is the Xcover6 Pro going to outlive devices with better specs? Is it more durable?

Me too! Rocking an S10e and going fine so far. Just a minor repair.

Why? I get that they're dirty and whatnot but antibacterial wipes have been a thing for decades.

I use to live in Seattle, when I was on the school bus I want see CRT tv sets just sitting on the side of the road, I always wanted to save them, a few times I have found phones on the sidewalk, and one time, I found a whole windows vista computer which just needed a power supply. I later sold that computer to my neighbors who needed a computer for online classes (I found the computer in 2018 and sold it in 2020, so you can see why it was needed for online classes). Despite my hate of 2020 because I was mostly stuck in the confines of my yard and my house, I still miss those days because I could pet my cat while taking tests, I could do other things in between classes, and after the restrictions let up, I could walk around my neighborhood, and I made some of my best finds during that time. Said funds include: The previously mentioned computer Another computer ( which I still have ) A Daewoo CRT tv set 2 phones A clock And a (cheep) camera

Start with small broken things like phones & laptops. Keep them under your bed. The first time you fix a family members device for free your parents will understand...👍

Thats what storage units are for. ;) And then when you save their bacon with something you found on the street you can tell them where it really came from (not from a shop as you originally led them to believe)

Keep it in the garage or the back room and you should be ok.

USMT, more like USDT

Geez. That's a steal even if you need to buy RAM sticks, a power supply and disks/solid state drives externally. My computer is running has an i5-4570 with 16 GB DDR3 RAM and 240 GB SSD/500 GB HDD. And I'm perfectly happy with it. The i7-4790 is a damn good CPU, even by today's standards.

@@imnotbeluga007 SSDs are a blessing for an old dog PC 🙏

This is a good point. Some stuff just doesn't have a market. It's painful to see, but, well, what is one going to do? Infinite resources don't exist.

Nice find!

Imagine having a huge dumpster with a lot of good reusable working electronic stuff in your country but no one allowed to enter or take those devices away. That must be exceptionally painful

That is sadly too common. Where I live (Spain) you are also not allowed to take anything from the recycling center, but generally the people working there are cool enough to let you take stuff anyway. It is sad how the workers have more common sense than the politicians that prohibited it.

@@DrBernon you are not allowed to take stuff from my local dumps too, but usually there are no employees around and you to watch you can rather easily just shove a laptop for example to a plastic bag and go away. if the employees see you they will yell at you. I have taken a cassette deck and a PS3 controller from my local dump.

That’s crazy. Well done to ya

I just refreshed my 2014 MBP R with a newer, larger, SSD, I replaced the battery, repasted the GPU and cleaned the fan. I felt accomplished, saved money, and bucked the trend...for a while longer. I also finally updated from OS X Yosemite (2014) to Big Sur (2022) this year. Now to find apps to replace my old non-compatable ones.

Why would they be appalled about that?

@@shadowcomputing They don't see the value in used gear and have this mentality that used stuff is infinitely worse than buying new. It's irrational