Quote Originally Posted by Scrappah View Post

The thing is that they usually break down pretty quickly. Do the four screws and pop the board. Spread the left and right sides with a large straight blade screw driver. Throw the steel shell into the shred pile. Toss the (mostly) plastic part in the trash.
E-scrap isn't my favorite (I'd rather tend my chickens or cattle...LOL), but I'm glad to have another option available. Rather than pull the boards out of DVD/CD drives, the whole thing finds it's way into a car body and it's usually still in the PC. Car bodies, being a high percentage plastic, glass and fabric anyhow are good 'dumps' for such things. I'd guess that most yards don't mind that approach if not overdone. Printers and CRTs just LOVE cars.