After we killed our iPod last week, we contemplated the best way to dispose of it. We had a five-year relationship with our iPod, and we couldn’t well imagine just pitching it in the trash. We considered burying it, as though it were a family pet, but ultimately concluded that doing so would be eco-unfriendly. We even wondered if it would be possible to cremate our iPod and toss its ashes into Lake Michigan. The Google search “cremate your ipod,” however, led us nowhere.
Eventually we stumbled on BuyMyTronics.com, a web-based company that buys used and broken electronics. We clicked our way through a menu of questions in which we described the condition of our dead iPod, and within a few moments we were offered $6.36 for it. Granted, it would take 35 more broken iPods at $6.36 a pop for us to have enough scratch to buy a new iPod, but it gives us a sense of peace to know that our 15GB friend will be parted out and used to extend the lives of other iPods.
