Rather than simply throw out my non-landfill-friendly trash, I keep my so-called "e-waste" in a box underneath my bed. Needless to say, it's starting to fill up, and opening the box can sometimes make my eyes begin to water.
This box is home to dead hard drives, useless write-once CDs, damaged floppies, blown electrolytic capacitors, burnt-out fluorescent light bulbs, and some dead (and even leaking and sulfated!) batteries. So therefore, this box contains varying amounts of lithium, sulfuric acid, zinc, manganese, mercury, cadmium, and various other heavy metals.
Does anyone actually dispose of these by any particularly "safe" means, or am I just being an idealist?