Earn up to £250 in Cash for Recycling your Old Laptop

Every year its estimated that 2 million PCs and laptops are thrown in the bin and are ending up at landfill. This is still only a small part of the 1.2 million tonnes of electrical waste that is chucked away in the UK every year, enough waste to fill Wembley stadium six times over, this rate is increasing a scary 5% every year.

In order to make a PC or laptop computer manufacturers use 10 times the product’s weight in chemical and fossil fuels so if you have an energy efficient system its manufacturing process has already posed a big problem to climate change. In addition to this many laptops heavy metals which are extremely toxic and flame retardants which are very dangerous when they aren’t disposed of correctly.

With technology always getting better many people purchase a new laptop much more regularly. Considering the implications in terms of climate change, use of resources and damage to the environment we should all remember to recycle our old laptops correctly.

Where to Recycle Your Unwanted Laptop for Cash

At this point in time we do not know of any recycling companies in the UK that will buy your laptop in return for cash. If any crop up we will be updating this page regularly. At this point in time the best place to see a working or broken laptop for cash is eBay.

The great think about using eBay is you know your unwanted laptop will go to someone else and be re-used or broken up and used for parts. However with eBay you are not guaranteed to get a fixed price like on recycling sites, you will only know how much you are getting for your old laptop once the auction has finished.

You can sell pretty much any make and model of laptop on eBay including Acer, Advent, Apple, Macbook, Macbook Pro, iBook G4 and G3, Arima, Asus, Benq, Clevo, Compaq, Dell, e-System, Evesham, Fujitsu Siemans, Gateway, Gericom, HP, Higrade, IBM, Lenovo, Medion, MicroStar, Novatech, Packard Bell, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, Time, Tiny and Toshiba. In fact you can sell almost all laptop makes on eBay that you could possibly think of.

How it Works

1. Visit the eBay site here.
2. If you have already registered then sign in with your username and password or click on register to create a new account.
3. If you are a complete beginner to selling on auction sites then have a read of the eBay selling guide.
4. Setup your auction including the starting price, reserve price if necessary and add any special features.
5. Let the auction run for however many days you have set, once it’s over e-mail the buyer the final cost and they will pay you by cheque or Paypal.

Paypal offers eBay users a few tips for selling high value items online these include:

• Beware of unusual requests as this could be a sign of suspicious activity
• Provide clear, detailed descriptions with photographs
• Make sure your buyer understands any return procedure that you want to offer
• Buyers like any questions answered quickly
• When selling old laptops and other electronic goods make sure you wipe the hard disc before selling it in order to remove any personal data.

Recycle your laptop or other electronic item at eBay here