8 Jun
2002
8 Jun
'02
6:27 a.m.
On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, J.C. Wren wrote:
Once you have scrap (and have picked it clean,
requiring a secondary
warehouse and museum space), can you economically separate the chaff from
the wheat? Austin Electronics has about 200 13" VGA displays in the back.
They can't toss them, and no one wants to buy them. Do you accept this kind
of material? If a person can't dispose the whole kit and kaboodle at one
shot, they're much less likely to bother with recycling.
There are recycling options for CRT's and just about anything else
electronic. You just have to find the right processors.
Do you hire cheap labor and build systems for
homeless people? Strip
components and eBay them? Try to do metal separation?
That's what volunteers are for, which is why you'd probably want to make
it a not for profit, give yourself a fat salary, and do some public good
in the process.
I'm not putting down the idea by any means (and
I'd love to have such a
place to browse), but can one reallistically make some above a
subsistence-level enterprise out of it? Are there are cases that are
successful? What's the operational cost of such a facility? Are you
YES.
See http://www.accrc.org/
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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