{"id":64,"date":"2026-10-06T18:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/2026\/10\/06\/what-to-do-with-e-waste-at-home\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T18:53:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T12:53:04","slug":"what-to-do-with-e-waste-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/2026\/10\/06\/what-to-do-with-e-waste-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Old laptops, phones and fridges: what to do with e-waste at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Old phones in a drawer, a laptop that no longer turns on, a fridge that stopped cooling. Electronic waste is growing in every home, and it needs more care than ordinary rubbish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why e-waste needs care<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Electronics contain copper, aluminium and other materials that can be recovered and reused. They also contain batteries and parts that can be harmful if they are burned or dumped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Before you sell a device<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Back up anything you want to keep<\/li>\n\n<li>Sign out of your accounts and reset the device<\/li>\n\n<li>Remove your SIM card and memory card<\/li>\n\n<li>Keep chargers and cables together, we buy those too<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do not open, break or burn it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Leave batteries and gas-filled parts such as fridge and AC compressors as they are. Our team handles them safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u0986\u09ae\u09b0\u09be \u09af\u09be \u0995\u09bf\u09a8\u09bf<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laptops, desktop computers, mobile phones, TVs, fridges, ACs, washing machines, fans, cables and more. Check the prices on our <a href=\"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/scrap-rates\/\">\u09b8\u09cd\u0995\u09cd\u09b0\u09cd\u09af\u09be\u09aa\u09c7\u09b0 \u09a6\u09be\u09ae\u09c7\u09b0 \u09aa\u09be\u09a4\u09be\u09af\u09bc<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/#book\">book a pickup<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken electronics contain metals worth recovering, and parts that should never end up in the bin. Here is how to get rid of e-waste safely.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recycling"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scrapmamabd.com\/bn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}