About Us
The Lake County Computer Hobbyist Group offers free recycling to the residents and businesses of Lake, Cuyahoga, Ashtabula, and Geauga counties.
Don’t pay someone to take your items or throw them into the garbage to be never used again, give them a second life! Many people don't know that old and outdated computer equipment is a health hazard, most waste removal companies won't even let you dispose of computer-related items and with current strict laws, most county waste departments do not want them in their landfills. Lake County Computer will dispose of your old computers and electronic items at NO cost to you or your business.
Our main goal is to help people by rebuilding old computers from extra parts and in our spare time, put them together to form a complete system that is clean and usable enough to donate to an individual that cannot afford a new computer.
**Please note that the Lake County Computer Hobbyist Group does not sell or service donated items, we receive a lot of spam e-mails from individuals regarding this and they get deleted**
Did You Know?
- Nearly 90% of what we throw away could potentially be recovered through reuse, recycling, or composting.
- More Americans recycle than vote.
- The EPA admits all landfill liners will eventually leak and their toxic leachate, or garbage juice, can seep into and contaminate soil and groundwater supplies. Roughly 20% of the sites on the Superfund list (the nation’s most hazardous sites) are solid waste landfills.
Items We Do Not Accept
- Glass screen televisions
- Projection televisions
- Glass screen (CRT) computer monitors
- Flat panel televisions over 40 inches
- Copy machines and printers
- Hazardous chemicals or materials
- Wooden housed appliances such as televisions
- No Cardboard, wood boards, nails or furniture and definitely no trash of any kind. You can call your local trash company and schedule a pickup for that.
Absolutely no glass screen televisions. People have been abusing this rule and have cost us hundreds of dollars. Cameras have been installed to catch future abusers.
Items We Accept
- Computers (desktops, servers, notebooks, laptops, tablets)
- Servers (all types of servers)
- Keyboards
- Mice
- Speakers
- Scanners (if a printer is attached to it, we cannot accept it)
- UPS and Battery backup systems
- Networking Equipment (switches, hubs, routers, network cards, rack stands, enclosures)
- Hard Drives (DVD, CDROM, HDD, Floppy, Tape Backup etc.) **We are in desperate need of SATA Hard Drives**
- Lead, Steel, Copper, Aluminum, Brass, Tungsten, Carbide, Iron (Bits, pieces, and parts)
- All stereo and audio equipment
- Cameras
- Camcorders
- Cell Phones
- All Palm equipment and Video Game Systems
- Video Games
- DVD Players CD and DVD Media
- Floppy Disks
- All Phone Equipment
- Radios from two-way systems and vehicles (CB radios, walkie-talkies, scanners, shortwave, ham, police/fire radios)
- Microwaves / Toasters
- Washers / Dryers
- Ovens and Stoves
- Arcade Equipment (vending machines, pinball, video, misc. dispensary machines)
- Electrical wires, cables, cases, metal racks, and other misc. electronic components and equipment
- Industrial equipment such as motors, welders, CNC, lathes, and other misc. tools
- PLC Equipment
- Circuit boards
If there is anything that is not on this list that you may have, please feel free to ask us.
