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It is not hazardous, but I think it means &quot;do not throw it away&quot;, so then by inference, &quot;recycle it&quot; . We have electronics recycling where I live.
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It is not hazardous, but I think it means "do not throw it away", so then by inference, "recycle it" . We have electronics recycling where I live.

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Trouble is that WEEE Euro rules work on percentages so your bit of cable may be better thrown in the bin but overall it is a significant mass that can be reclaimed against recycling targets.
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Trouble is that WEEE Euro rules work on percentages so your bit of cable may be better thrown in the bin but overall it is a significant mass that can be reclaimed against recycling targets.

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I noticed an interesting icon on my Hard Drive Adapter Cable. It is a trash can with an X.<br />
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So, does that mean &quot;don't throw it away&quot;? &nbsp;<br />
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&nbsp;If the cable fails am I supposed to treat it like hazardous material? And, if it is hazardous, why the heck am I touching right now?<br />
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<a href="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2018/08_w32/1366875/x-icon.jpg" target="_blank" title="x icon.jpg (16 KB)"><img alt="x icon.jpg" class="file-block lazyload" style="max-width: 355px;" data-src="https://filedb.experts-exchange.com/incoming/2018/08_w32/1366875/x-icon.jpg" /></a><br />
Second question, &nbsp;Is there any website that will tell me what the icon means if I simply paste a high quality jpg?
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I noticed an interesting icon on my Hard Drive Adapter Cable. It is a trash can with an X.

So, does that mean "don't throw it away"?  

 If the cable fails am I supposed to treat it like hazardous material? And, if it is hazardous, why the heck am I touching right now?



Second question,  Is there any website that will tell me what the icon means if I simply paste a high quality jpg?

Hardware has an icon of trashcan with an X.  Can I throw it a way?

Storage devices include any device used for storing and retrieving digital information. Hard disk drives (HDDs) use one or more rigid ("hard") rapidly rotating disks (platters) coated with magnetic material. Data is accessed in a random-access manner, meaning that individual blocks of data can be stored or retrieved in any order and not only sequentially. The primary competing technology for secondary storage is flash memory in the form of solid-state drives (SSDs), but HDDs remain the dominant medium for secondary storage due to advantages in price per bit and per-device recording capacity. CD-RW (Compact Disc-ReWritable) is a digital optical disc storage format that allows information to be stored outside the mechanical HDD.