Along the lines of the recent TechTurn post, here's a Yahoo Finance piece on computer recycling, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal Online.

Where Computers Go to Die is a bit basic, but it has the goods on how to go about recycling your old PCs. Mind you, some will charge you for the privilege (not Dell, it's free!) but they generally offer some sort of compensation. The article goes one step further, too.

Author, Katherine Boehret, also reminds us to completely wipe its drive(s) before you send off that old desktop or laptop. This is critical, you don't want some fool running amok with your personal info. She only recommends a handful of hard drive erasing utilities, but you can find even more by trawling the comments in this Lifehacker post, but don't scroll too far or you'll end up overly paranoid.