FYI: Office Depot to recycle old PCs...

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 19:25, Fred Cisin wrote: Indeed. My local computer "recycling" place works on the premise that Unless it's a PC, it gets ripped apart, with plastic going to the local tip, PCBs going somewhere else, and metal going for scrap value. No attempt is made to advertise any such donated equipment to the public; I only know because I happened to be there one day when someone was coming to do a run of remains to the tip and so saw the pile of plastic shells from 80's micros awaiting the crusher. The owner isn't open to any kind of arangement where I buy non-PC machines from him for something above scrap value (where I could then sell them on to good homes for what I paid for them) - I've tried asking that a couple of times. I think to him it's simply a business and his money comes from selling secondhand PC components; even if an arrangement was more convenient for him because it means not having to part 'unsellable' out himself, he still can't think beyond what he's always done. I don't know, I just get frustrated by people who think that recycling involves smashing things into component parts first, rather than making an effort to recycle the thing as a whole first (regardless of what the 'thing' is). That kind of attitude makes no sense to me... cheers Jules