[Glastonbury] oops.....suse license

[Greg Browne]

On recycling, if I get the occasional one, I strip it down to plastic,
metal and electrical, then dump. I am concerned about the electrical
(heavy metals etc) getting in the landfill. I asked SSDC for advice on
this, but they were unable to give me any apart from suggesting that I
look up a disposal firm in yellow pages and talk to them, which i
haven't done.

 Anyone else?

Greg

> Recycling computers is an interesting business. I'm aware of quite a high need
> for cheap / free hardware in Glastonbury, the difficulty lies with organising
> the movement and setting up of machines, Glastonbury's denizens being
> notorious for being unable to make up their minds etc .. Obviously that's
> their problem .. in short, I can probably find homes for most
> no-longer-saleable hardware, but I'm as wary as anyone else of accumulating
> lots of beige doorstops. As this is probably going to be the last phase of
> any machine's useful life, I find my thoughts constantly turning to disposal.
> What do you do with really useless hardware, take it to the tip? and then what
> happens? The idea of landfill is horrific, do they separate out the bits and
> melt them down? I guess I could phone the council and ask. Obviously the sane
> answer is to keep recycling as far as possible, but clearly that's a big
> space / time commitment. The people / time / skills bit is relatively easy,
> the space equation not so. Just thinking out loud really ...
> </waffle>
> 
> cheers
> 
> tim hall
> 
> 
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