“I gotta lot of private data on these old disks, I better get rid of them to make sure no one sees what I do on my computer,” the YouTuber says at the start of his video. With labels such as “furry ...

Have an old computer lying around the house? Don't just throw it away. Computers house all sorts of toxins that are bad for the environment and all of us who live in it. Not to mention the personal ...

Our basement bedroom has a huge desktop computer that we never use except to dust. Why are we keeping it? A recent CNET survey found that nearly a third of us are hoarding old electronics, because ...

I love disposing of problems. The other day, I was presented with a disposal problem. As I was walking down the hall, I noticed a lot of old computer equipment sitting next to a pile of trash. My ...

This story has been updated with statements from Microsoft and additional information about how refurbishers obtain restore disks. A California man who built a sizable business out of recycling ...