Not yet of course, I’m sure it is still a great deal of fun. But what will you do when it breaks, or you get tired of it and a cooler toy comes along? Weee is the European Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive which makes it compulsory for this sort of thing to be disposed of properly. The ideal situation would be for the council to collect them with the other recycling, and there is always a chance that someone else will have it away from your bin before it is emptied. Getting it working again for a second life is the ultimate in recycling. We have found that casually leaving old video recorders propped up against the front garden wall is the quickest way to get rid of them. Bigger stuff like TVs don’t go so easily.
Freecycle – give it away properly (ie not just leaving for someone to pinch) – and maybe get something else later.
http://www.freecycle.org
(no I don’t work for them ;))
Hi Henry – good point, I had forgotten about that. My daughter has used it but we haven’t yet.