What to do with old digital cameras?

Most places have technology recycling independently from typical recycling. You can call the local recycling center and ask them what to do with the digital camera, I’m sure they will have a response for you. You could also try to give it away for parts by posting an add on Craigslist etc.. I think giving the out-of-date one to goodwill would be very kind of you.

weecare.com,
photovoice.org
A few places that will take them for charity

Sell them on eBay

Give them to someone who works at a preschool program. The kids take them apart and look at the bits and pieces. It’s very instructive.
Hey, @SeventhSense remind me to check your seller’s score next time I’m shopping.

Or how about donating it (the one that works) to a school or church?

I agree with donating it to a school. My wife is a teacher and her school would welcome donations such as that. Ever since Ronald Reagan’s attempt to destroy the American public school system schools have been starved for funds. Here in California we’ve been hit with Reagan’s hit on schools twice (he was governor once, you know).
Sorry. Now I’ve segued into a politiical rant.

you can donate those, or keep them for your grandchildren, my uncle recently gave a generation-1 walkman, now is a relic in my bedroom and i just love it, i love old stuff!

@flameboi- I still have my old cassette Sony Walkman.

I would give it to a friend with young kids. Let the kids play with it, even if it breaks.

I have this collection, a hobby, which is different from most. I collect new, working things. Any of you want to get rid of your new, working cameras (or other useless, expensive tech gadgets, PM me for my address. I’ll pay for postage. Thanks.

Do not put it in your recycle bin! They won’t be able to do anything with it. Like some other folks suggested, make a few phone calls to figure out who can take it. You’ll need to do special electronics recycling if it doesn’t function. Where do you live?

@jbfletcherfan – Yes donating them is a good idea. I think older cameras are especially useful for kids who still have to learn how to take good photos. For them it doesn’t matter how many pixels there are, or how good the lens is. For experienced photographers the latter is actually far more important. 3 or 6 or whatever megapixels does not really matter, except when you are created poster-size prints. What counts are good lenses and good motifs.

@mattbrowne Thanks. I just hate to see things thrown out that can still be used. Even to a library. I work in a library & there’s times we’ve wanted to take pictures, but both of us has said….I didn’t think to bring my camera. If we had one right there, it’d be very useful to use at any time.

Y’all know I was kidding, right?_ (Perhaps no-one even cares?)

@jbfletcherfan – Yes, I also have trouble throwing things away. I don’t have time to sell used books I know I won’t read again. So I donate them. Books are precious.

@mattbrowne Oh, geez, don’t even get me started on books! I’ve always loved them, but now that I work in a library, they’re even more precious to me. We have a used book sale at the community center every September. People bring in tons of books & we sell them at .25 for paperbacks & .50 for hard covers. It’s a great money maker for the library. Throwing books away is almost sacreligious to me.

@jbfletcherfan – Yes, it’s sacreligious to me as well and there are only a few exceptions, like the 1972 fact book of European countries with lots of outdated statistics. They end up in our paper recycling bin.

@mattbrowne Oh, yeah, we have to go through about every month & delete books out of the system. If a book hasn’t been checked out in 3 years, out it does. I delete them out of the computer & we put them in the back room & save them for the fall used book sale. We’re a small library & just don’t have room for everything. By the time we order new books, the shelf space is nil. Of course that’s a good way for me to see what’s getting deleted & I get first pick, LOL. A nice perk there.

@emilyrose in Northern California.

hmm…. i only know of resources in the bay