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Pick something up from our attempt at blatent commercialism. News The ACCRC will be looking for the next holiday excuse to be closed. So check out our phone message or web site before you visit. The ACCRC is now home to the famous Junk Yard Super Computer, the infamous free-shelf, and the always popular free Internet and gaming cafe.
We are the Alameda County Computer Resource Center, a 501 non-profit corporation. We will recycle anything you can plug into a power outlet that doesn't have food put inside of it on a regular basis. This means we'll recycle your computer, your VCR, your Television, but not your microwave, your washing machine, or your refrigerator. When you give us your computer, you will receive a tax write-off, and we will attempt to fix your equipment and then give it away to someone who would otherwise never be able to afford a computer. If your equipment is completely dead, it will be recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.
These fees are used to insure that we will have the funds to properly dispose of all non-functioning equipment. We must charge these fees no matter whether the equipment you are donating is functioning or not. Unfortunately, it is not cheap to recycle electronics properly. Any electronics recycler who is not charging a fee is very likely shipping the equipment to China or the Philipenes where it will probably be stripped of its copper and then thrown in a landfill or river. The ACCRC does not ship electronic scrap overseas for the purposes of recycling. The only equipment we send out of North America are rebuilt PC's for donation to foreign charities.
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