“In most homes lies a box of unused devices that serve as fond reminders of a time gone by: VHS tapes with footage of Gen Y childhoods; Walkmans, which bestowed bragging rights upon its owners; iPods that once were the hippest way to listen to music and BlackBerrys, which introduced the world to a new way of communicating. Each one may have acquired the status of a cultural phenomenon at one time, and often come up in millennials’ conversations about the good ol' days, but “sentimental hoarding” is cause for concern and leads us to wonder just how much we accumulate in the name of nostalgia. More importantly, it begs the question: what will we do with all these defunct gadgets when we eventually decide to discard them?” - Verve Magazine
Here’s a list of organisations that can help properly dispose of our mounting piles of electronic objects.
