I had two old window a/cs in my basement that I was never going to use again.
I thought I should recycle them, although I couldn’t find any place that would take them.
I said I would put them in the newspaper and sell them, but my fiance said they weren’t worth anything. I gave them to the church, but they didn’t want anything to do with the window a/cs. All I wanted to do was recycle my old a/c units, but no one wanted them. I called one of the local Heating and Air Conditioning companies, and I was told someone would pick them up. They could refurbish them if they were in nice enough shape. They would then provide them to the local church and they would go to needy families. I wished the church had told me that. I would have taken them to the Heating and Air Conditioning supplier when I wanted to get rid of them. I couldn’t believe no one would recycle window a/c units, and I wondered how many of them ended up at the local landfill instead of being refurbished. That’s when I made it a mission to find out where all the old a/c units went. I found out there were a lot of them in the landfill, but more than fifty percent of them were either refurbished or sent back to the supplier where they were purchased. What those companies did with them is still a mystery. I do not have time to wage a protest over discarded a/c units, although I wished someone else had the time.