To whom to give the old servers and hardware?

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Igor Tarasov2019-10-16 09:37:12

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Igor Tarasov, 2019-10-16 09:37:12

In our data center , from time to time the question arises of where to put the old servers. Clients leave something, something remains from renting servers that we leased 5-15 years ago.
There are things that can be sold, and there are things that are not for sale or are no longer worth anything. By law, you can’t throw away old iron, and it’s wrong to litter landfills. It is also not clear where to take it for recycling. And this problem is nationwide. Plus, writing off all this on paper is a separate problem. The easiest thing to give.
In what forums does it make sense to post such information? Ideally, we would have some kind of organization like young technicians or what are the houses of pioneers now called? So that the paper was, we handed it over, they accepted it.
Share what your organizations do with old hardware?

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Sergey c0re, 2019-10-16
@itsoft

If there is no one to give and distribute, then there are recycling offices:
recycling of computer equipment

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EvilSide, 2019-10-16
@EvilSide

With a similar problem, we fought on the means of transferring iron for vocational schools \ Universities \ Colleges.
They can accept documents and most often will be happy about it.

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Ronald McDonald, 2019-10-16
@Zoominger

Are you in Moscow? If we were in St. Petersburg, I would take it.
Donate to orphanages and hospital departments, for example, they will take anyone.

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Andrew, 2019-10-16
@deepblack

Rusonyx used to distribute servers to the needy for free.
Here are articles on Habré:
https://habr.com/en/company/rusonyx/blog/214537/
and https://habr.com/en/company/rusonyx/blog/188606/
Конечно, есть несколько условий, они достаточно простые:
You can publish it there, just fill out the normal article.

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CityCat4, 2019-10-16
@CityCat4

For us, it works to the state of "you can't look without tears" and then it is thrown into the trash. I think it can be distributed to any state institutions in which there is always a problem with funding - schools, hospitals, libraries.

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Nikolai, 2019-10-16
@nevzorofff

You weren't looking for buyers. I would take a couple of servers from 2010, we have a small telecom operator, we don’t have money for anything, but we would buy it for a penny, so that at least you can beat off the hassle of delivering to the TC.
Put on Avito at least a thousand with delivery to the mall and they will buy them from you)