This got me thinking… certainly got 2 cameras and a broken video player that can go to the Tip… probably other stuff in the attics. Might organise a “treasure hunt” when it cools down a bit up there…
I’ve got a little meat mincer , had it 43 years and not used it in 30. I’m hoping, here in France I’ll have more reason to do so, I daydream about making Lincolnshire sausages.
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Gracious, that takes me back…
Probably got one of those in the attics, too. Mother convinced me it was an essential kitchen tool but I never got around to using it. 
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Unfortunately a lot of electronic waste ends up in China where the “recycling” is typically carried out with little regard for environmental or human health.
I wonder what the percentages are nowadays. I thought China was no longer taking in the rubbish of the world…
If this electronic stuff (components) is becoming rarer - I reckon countries will be vying to contain/maintain their own “hidden treasures”.
Mrs L says I’m hoarding an old gadget in my drawers… 
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I think that it has banned plastic waste imports (officially at least), not sure about electronic waste.
However it looks as though the problem just moves around rather than disappearing…
I reckon countries will suddenly wake-up to where the “valuable” waste is going (if they are not recycling it themselves).
Where there’s muck there’s brass… 
I’m not hoarding old gadgets, but I seem to hoarding their boxes! I’ve got a mountain of small boxes which have to go. But which ones do I keep? This one is for a mini stove to heat up my coffee pot. I’m never going to sell it, shall keep it until it stops working, box not needed, but so much went into its design by the people involved in its manufacture. Seems a shame to throw it away like a piece of junk. Is it junk?
I shall keep boxes for expensive things like cameras etc.
Decisions!!! What to do? Am I being pedantic?
Its only a cardboard box displaying what you hope to find inside it - chuck it out.
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We have put empty boxes on LBC for free, and they go quite quickly. Especially bigger ones.
I gave away half a dozen small kitchen appliances that my late wife used to mostly prepare meals. All but one were cheap Chinese barely functional crap that I haven’t used in 4 months and would likely never use. The only item that I was a bit reluctant to gift was a euro-made Braun juicer, but, still, I would be unlikely to juice anything.
When I get myself installed in my new place I might look around for appliances that I can use, but it won’t be the Chinese stuff. I would rather find used Euro -made stuff.