How to throw away obsolete electronics

[Daniel Santos]

I have to throw away an old printer and a portable radio and cassete player. But I don't want to just send it to the garbage. What would you do ?

[Mary Fisher]

Doesn't your local reclamation/recycling centre have a special place for them?

Mary

[Stuart]

Join the Freecycle Group on Yahoo Groups relative to the area you stay in and someone will take it .

Stuart

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

I would throw it in the bin.

doubt anyone would take it off you're hands though

[simon]

Find a skip or your local council tip. It will be on ebay within the week. I put a monitor in the bin once and the bin lorry stopped!

[Lobster]

Do they work or not? (not sure how much difference that may make?!)

David

[Dave Fawthrop]

|I have to throw away an old printer and a portable radio and cassete |player. But I don't want to just send it to the garbage. What would you do ?

Our local tip^h^h^hdomestic waste site has a special container for electronic stuff. I think someone strips the good stuff out.

[Gully Foyle]

I took two old but working monitors to the local tip a few weeks back and was told that new council regulations stated that only one monitor could be brought to the tip per household per week! When I blinked at this he said "I'm not looking - put them over there"

[Andy Hall]

I'm convinced that these tip guys make up the "rules" as they go along.

It gives them the opportunity to wield some power ranging from flat refusal to making their customers bow and scrape to getting eternal thanks that they allowed the "rules" to be bent.

[Mary Fisher]

They're jobsworths, right?

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[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

In my day it was a cast iron bin in the wall that they had to hook out and sling it on their back,empty it and then hump it back to where it belonged. :-(

[Carl Inglis]

On 2006-03-18, Andy Hall wrote: [snip]

To dispose of three broken monitors legally will cost my employers around £250 pounds under the new legislation. The tip rules are designed to stop businesses offloading their commercial stuff by sending their IT chap round with a car load. The jobsworths seem to have forgotten that any business can quite quickly russle up a number of people willing to take random runs to the tip. Not that I'd suggest that any business do that, of course.

Carl

[Andy Hall]

Not usually. Following outsourcing, they typically seem to be pikies.

The jobsworths are to be found in the town hall or as car park attendants or school caretakers looking like Deryck Guyler.

[Colin Wilson]

If its a dot matrix, you`d be surprised at what they sell for on ebay these days !

[dennis]

They still do that here. Its a plastic bin though.

[mogga]

ebay or freecycle.

Freecycle works ok as long as you remember to put your approx location and if you state that you won't deliver (or will) else you'll get people asking you to deliver stuff miles.

[Ed Sirett]

One of the biggest hassles for business is that you can dispose of Asbestos and nuclear waste (eg. ionization smoke alarms) at the dump provided you arrive in a car. In a van it's £50+VAT per trip even if it's hedge clippings.

[Bill]

In message , simon writes

I put 2 CRT monitors in a skip in St Neots and they both appeared days later in an auction in Bedford, the dead one made £10:00 and the working one £5:00 !!!!!!!!!!

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Fine, but are the binmen built like "brick sh**houses". ;-)

the ones you get now are either spotty oik's or look as if they just walked out of burtons window.

[daddyfreddy]

The guys round my way are corrupt as hell and have been for years. It's meant to be strictly for residents and not trade rubbish. If you come in a van it must be done by appointment and only for private rubbish. When I've gone down there I've always had lots of grief. Once I was disposing of a front garden brick wall (my own) and had a hired a van to dump the stuff. I went through all the proper channels but the guys there were expecting kickbacks. One of them went off on one because I wasn't 'treating' them. Then their 'manager' turns up in his car and tells me that the refuse didn't belong to the council but a water company (which was a plain lie) and I wasn't really meant to be dumping bricks there...but "if you look after the boys we'll let it pass". I just took the stuff to another dump and had no problems.