dosomething.org says of america's trash in of overall toxic waste tech connection by marc saltzman tech it forward how to recycle your old devices and help to save the planet electronic here's one obvious downside to our increasing reliance on "e-waste” refers to discarded rather than recycled electronic equip- ment accumulating in landfills each year-about 50 million tons of it world- the issue is that consumer electronics contain toxic substances such as cad- you'll want to properly recycle several ways to donate or recycle elec- drop-off locations across the country where you can take your larger tech items or mailed through programs offered by mobile phone carriers sevag sagherian there are a few differences from state to read the details the first thing to do is properly back up your information from the drive you're let you transfer files to a micro sd card device should show up as a new drive everything remove data from your digital devices before you recycle them-just in case they fall into the wrong hands loadable software that can properly erase “shredding." tools like eraser and cbl data shredder can comb through every as for smartphones and tablets the good news is ios and android for a "restore" or "factory reset” should be fine marc saltzman is a leading high-tech reporter and author he's on twitter @marc_saltzman saltzman will answer selected questions in that unpublished questions cannot be answered individually email connection acostco.com please include "tech connection" in the subject line costco connection look for backup drives trade in apple products trade-in-program- phobio.html
