Don't know what state you are in but more likely than not it is going to a R2 certified company. Not that that is the best. One of the so called founders on R2 and the Basel Action Network found a loophole to sell processors on Ebay. He can do this because processors are not considered circuit boards so they can pretty do whatever they want with them. I talked to him and he said he is selling them for collector value even though he says in the title that they are for gold recovery.The big problem is that there's an ASSUMPTION that once a computer has been dropped off at the designated spot and picked up by a big recycler that it will be dealt with in a responsible way. The truth is that nobody really knows unless careful oversight is maintained. Laptops are especially labor intensive so it's more likely that they will be palatalized and shipped off to China or some third world nation for recycling. That's a pretty significant export of American data to countries that may not be our friends.
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