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On Wed, 14 May 2025 16:49:04 -0400, Paul wrote:
They don't have to go to waste.
https://www.westerndigital.com/company/programs/easy-recycle
The only problem with local recyclers, is they will at least harvest the
chassis metal. But routing the magnets to the right place, is a larger
ask for them.
When done the careless way, they use chipper machines, and just grind
the device into base materials, then run a separation method to put the
PCB chips in one pile, the metal chassis bits in another pile.
The purpose of this, is avoiding the need for staff with screwdrivers to
take it apart the manual way.
But if the owner of the drive, separates the bits into piles, the PCBs
can be sent to the local electronics recycler, the chassis to the
aluminum guy... and the rest could be sent to WDC. That would avoid
sending a box at postal rates, with the entire mass in it.
One thing they're running out of, is Helium (for the Helium-filled
drives).
but Helium is available if people want it (it is a residual gas in
natural gas wells but requires "separation" to get it.
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More than one company, has robots that do the entire disassembly of hard
drives.
While my country would use our chipper plant to destroy them, other
companies don't even use humans to get the magnets. Robots do it.
(No, not robots with arms and legs. Minimal robots, as in NC machines.)
This means if recycling Helium drives, the workstation needs a milling
bit, to mill the welded cover edge off. Whereas conventional air
breather drives, can be taken apart with robotic screwdrivers on an
actuator assembly. It's likely a human places the HDD in the correct X-Y
position on the table, and just walks away. When they come back, the
table should be clear, ready for the next one to be oriented correctly
for disassembly.
One of the screw holes may be hidden under a label, which is part of the
fun.
https://img.youtube.com/vi/jegH5YrSTgo/maxresdefault.jpg
You can use any level of care and attention suits your purpose.
Me sending one to the chipper plant, is good enough.
Those are all great ideas, for people that don't care about the Earth or
the environment or conservation. All these options you mention are
horrible suggestions, frankly.
Do you know how much energy it takes to run machines like shredders, granulators,and separators and assorted automated robots? And don't even mention the balers. Just think of it. My God, imagine the destruction of precious wildlife and land resources originally done when getting the
metal ore, limestone, coal, etc... out of the earth to create these huge, monstrous machines.
One day's operation at a recycling plant probably uses more gas, oil, electricity, etc... than a normal family in a normal sized home would in a thousand years.
Add to this all the gasoline used by employees in vehicles that are used every single day to drive to and from their employment. Then each day
when they go home they shower or take a bath, which is a tremendous waste
of precious Mother Earth's water supply.
These same employees have to feed their bodies food to sustain them during their workdays, also.
It just goes on and on and on. I would rather have just converted my HDD drives into SSD's like I originally stated but, I guess that isn't
possible.
On 25/08/2025 1:06 pm, CtrlAltDel wrote:
testWhy are you posting a 'test' message into a non-test Newsgroup??
'x.test' newsgroups are MADE for test messages.
On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:39:15 +1000, Daniel70 wrote:
On 25/08/2025 1:06 pm, CtrlAltDel wrote:
testWhy are you posting a 'test' message into a non-test Newsgroup??
'x.test' newsgroups are MADE for test messages.
It's my thread; I can do what I want.
On Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:39:15 +1000, Daniel70 wrote:
On 25/08/2025 1:06 pm, CtrlAltDel wrote:
testWhy are you posting a 'test' message into a non-test Newsgroup??
'x.test' newsgroups are MADE for test messages.
It's my thread; I can do what I want.
