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What is the best way to responsibly dispose of old electronic equipment.

But she finally became suspicious and tried to dispose of it.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 1998

"So we wanted to have the compys around to clean up." "You mean to dispose of carcasses?"  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Whether they are destroyed individually or in groups, or however it is done, with mass bombing, poisonous smoke, poisons, drowning, decapitation, or what, dispose of them as the situation dictates ….  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

They gave me a disposable slate-gray jumpsuit to put on, with matching plastic shoes.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to fit the words in here and there, this place and that, and when they find the words don't have any place ready-made where they'll fit, the machinery disposes of the words like they weren't even spoken.†  (source) Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 1962

the Lord disposeth all things.†  (source) Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749

When all the garbage has been dropped down a disposal and the food cleaned away, she turns down my bed.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

He picks up his dinner, goes to the sink with it, and flushes it down the disposer.†  (source) Judith Guest, Ordinary People, 1976

The contents would be disposed of by Hans as prudently as possible.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

He was the consummate handyman, a veritable knight in shining armor when puddles formed beneath kitchen sinks or when garbage disposals went on the blink.†  (source) Nicholas Sparks, The Guardian, 2003

Stuffed into a closet in her private dressing room—a sanctum never penetrated by Blackstock—were over seventy empty quart bottles of Southern Comfort, which the poor woman apparently dreaded to risk disposing of, although she plainly had no trouble acquiring the powerful sweet elixir and stowing it away by the case.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

I ain't undisposed.†  (source) Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884

The issue will be disposed of by the judge.

Once the Sixers had obtained the egg and won the contest, Art3mis and Shoto would "be disposed of."  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

The Committee for the Disposal of Dangerous Creatures required a witness to the execution of a mad hippogriff.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 1999

"Humph!" With one syllable Matthew disposed of the sacrifice, only a little less sharp than Grandfather's loss,  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

Surely a drugged Mockingjay will be easier to dispose of in front of a crowd.  (source) Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay, 2010

But Tom's extravagance had, previous to that event, been so great as to render a different disposal of the next presentation necessary, and the younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

He had no difficulty in disposing of the fallacy, and he was in no danger of succumbing to it.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

The forest disposes of its own victims.  (source) Ayn Rand, Anthem, 1937

I carry things up the stairs and stow them in the garage. In there they seem disposed of.  (source) Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye, 1988

they intend to dispose of him  (source) Darren Shan, A Vampire's Assistant, 2001

Well, I suppose this is his idea of a suitable disposal of the problem.  (source) Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, 1991

Nevin continued: "Next, and the big one, testamentary capacity, or sound and disposing mind."  (source) John Grisham, Sycamore Row, 2014

As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases.  (source) F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925

Her will split everything between the children, but left no instructions regarding disposal of her home and art.

We all knew how Mom had reacted to Papaw's death, but Mamaw's death created new pressures: It was time to wind down the estate, figure out Mamaw's debts, dispose of her property, and disburse what remained.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

He made me think of a pirate captain disposing of the booty.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

Without waiting for Cinder's answer, Adri said, "Iko, you can begin disposing of Peony's things.†  (source) Marissa Meyer, Cinder, 2012

So the legislature makes a law that says she can dispose of her property by deed executed in the presence of a judge.  (source) James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, & John Jay, The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2, 2008

Take it that I have disposed of my share as I wished, and let it go at that!  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

Cut off thus unexpectedly, he left no will as to the disposal of his property.  (source) Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, 1845

As soon as the rovers were unstowed and activated, Commander Lewis had the joy of disposing of the RTG.†  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

There was only a small part of his estate that Sir Walter could dispose of;  (source) Jane Austen, Persuasion, 1817

Having told how she disposed of her tales, Jo added, "And when I went to get my answer, the man said he liked them both, but didn't pay beginners, only let them print in his paper, and noticed the stories."  (source) Louisa May Alcott, Little Women, 1868

It was the accepted course of action for disposing of the effects of the deceased and we didn't question anything about it.†  (source) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

Now, from the moment that you divest the landowner of that interest in the preservation of his estate which he derives from association, from tradition, and from family pride, you may be certain that sooner or later he will dispose of it; for there is a strong pecuniary interest in favor of selling, as floating capital produces higher interest than real property, and is more readily available to gratify the passions of the moment.  (source) Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, Volume 1, 1835

The rest of his property, which was to be withdrawn from the bank, was disposed of in various bequests, several of them to those cousins in Vermont to whom his father had already been so bountiful.  (source) Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2, 1881

You have a tight deadline, but the entire company is at your disposal.

I was his to dispose of, like his seed-warriors or his fire-breathing bulls.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

The only movement at her disposal was the act of turning.  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

I hear Four's voice in my head, telling me that the most powerful weapon at my disposal is my elbow.  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

They carried spears and disposed themselves to defend the entrance.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

"My dear sister," said Mary, "if you can persuade him into anything of the sort, it will be a fresh matter of delight to me to find myself allied to anybody so clever, and I shall only regret that you have not half a dozen daughters to dispose of."  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

Whichever power controls equatorial Africa, or the countries of the Middle East, or Southern India, or the Indonesian Archipelago, disposes also of the bodies of scores or hundreds of millions of ill-paid and hard-working coolies.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

Your voice shall be as strong as any man's In the disposing of new dignities.  (source) William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, 1599

If such an administration succeeds in condensing at a given moment, on a given point, all the disposable resources of a people, it impairs at least the renewal of those resources.  (source) Alexis de Toqueville, Democracy In America, Volume 1, 1835

You'll have all of our company's vast resources at your disposal.  (source) Ernest Cline, Ready Player One, 2011

We visited the wondrous cave and the little cabinets of natural history, where the curiosities are disposed in the same manner as in the collections at Servox and Chamounix.  (source) Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1831

She has been allowed to dispose of her time in the most idle and frivolous manner, and to adopt any opinions that came in her way.  (source) Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1813

Collectively, the Party owns everything in Oceania, because it controls everything, and disposes of the products as it thinks fit.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

In that country, you are unlikely to find an official who is disposed to help you unless you offer a bribe.

But even if they were disposed to help me, they would not dare to stand against Athena in her wrath.  (source) Madeline Miller, Circe, 2018

Under the circumstances, the government was not disposed to release survivors in a hurry.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

In the hallway William did not seem disposed to hurry.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

Nevertheless, until the British government caved in to the strong-arm tactics of the Ulster loyalist workers after the Sunningdale Conference in 1974, a well-disposed mind could still hope to make sense of the circumstances, to balance what was promising with what was destructive and do what W.B. Yeats had tried to do half a century before, namely, "to hold in a single thought reality and justice."†  (source) Seamus Heaney, Crediting Poetry, 1995

A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

As he seemed undisposed to mention the creature to anyone else, I thought perhaps I should keep quiet as well.  (source) Diana Gabaldon, Outlander, 1991

Nevertheless, in consideration of your youth and the ill nurture, devoid of all gentleness and courtesy, which you have doubtless had in the land of slaves and tyrants, we are disposed to set you free, unharmed, on these conditions: first, that...  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy, 1954

The doctor, well-disposed, gave me many warnings about the dangers of this project insofar as my contact with Negroes was concerned.†  (source) John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me, 1961

A very few days were enough to effect this; and at the end of those few days, circumstances arose which had a tendency rather to forward his views of pleasing her, inasmuch as they gave her a degree of happiness which must dispose her to be pleased with everybody.  (source) Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, 1814

Were Sophie ever disposed to laughter, this running byplay between Bronek and the elephantine governess, who plainly enjoyed his attentions, would have come as close as anything to providing her with comic relief.  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

290), and render: _Men well-disposed towards the king carried the head, etc._ 'Cynebealde,' says t.B., endorsing Gr.†  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1892

In fact I may say that Matthew is disposed to keep her.  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908