What kind of dead technology do you have in your cupboards?
I recently found two old instant cameras in the back of a drawer-- with half-advanced rolls of film still in them. The local photo developer was able to develop only some of the shots (the film was around a decade old) and I was treated to some grainy, red-tinted photographs of my old apartment in Japan. The time stamps were shortly before I bought my first digital camera.
I've also got a stack of blank CDs and DVDs in a drawer; I used to stockpile them to burn things for friends, but now the flash drive has rendered them useless. I hardly even watch DVDs from Netflix anymore, though I get plenty of usage out of their "Watch Instantly" service.
In an effort to clear domestic clutter I recycled the film cameras last week (thanks Best Buy, for offering free in-store electronic goods recycling), along with a pair of once-extremely-cool landline phones I'd purchased while living in Japan.
I may recycle the unburned discs next. If anyone needed a sure sign that they'll disappear, Apple is allegedly dropping iDVD from their next version of iLife. Remember when they dropped support for the floppy disk? Yes, most of us thought they were crazy, but months later I regretted stockpiling a crapload of the useless squares that a local store had slashed the price on, and I won't make that mistake again!
In any case, I originally started this post to point out that Best Buy offers free e-recycling at their brick-and-mortar stores. Bring in a bag of whatever you've got and they'll take care of it, so you can clean house and get those dust-gathering precious metals back into the product stream, hopefully saving a modicum of natural resources.