What do you do with your e-waste?

So I had to do a thorough cleaning of my apartment on Sunday/Monday to get it ready for a Monday afternoon showing. I can't believe how much junk I tossed out, yet it really didn't make a dent. And now I'm wondering - what do you all do with old computers? The laptop my uncle gave me my senior year of HS (which was already a few years old) just sits in its case and gathers dust. It technically still works, but it's ancient. (Windows 98!) It's a bit sentimental. I have all my old stories on it from when I thought I would someday be a young adult writer. So cute. I think I had transferred them to floppy disk at one point. But where can you even insert a floppy disk anymore? (I'll tell you where...jk)

But I don't want it to end up in a dump or worse, in a pseudo dump in Africa where children burn the wires, releasing toxic fumes, in order to get the scrap copper.

What to do?

Oh, and remember how excited I was about my $500 going on my CC and getting new sunglasses? I bought a pair for $8. And now I can't find them. I think I wore them three times total. *sigh*