I remember the sad time my old high school started to retire all the BBC Micros, Acorn 30*’s and all the Amstrad PCWs. They all just got thrown into a huge industrial skip and carted off to be crushed into our local landfill. When I think of all those lovely Acorn computers just being destroyed. We did of course salvage quite a few systems three of which I still have and fire up every now and then. This was in the early 1990s nothing got recycled.