15 Mar
2007
15 Mar
'07
6:46 p.m.
roger pugh wrote:
British charity shops wont take any donation of mains
powered
appliances. This is due to the cost of safety testing needed before
resale.
Has that changed in the last six months? Six months ago it depended entirely
on the place - the Sally Army shop in central Cambridge would PAT-test items
for instance, but my nearer one in one of the outlying villages wouldn't.
These days of course our wonderful government have probably passed some
nanny-state law forbidding any charity store to take stuff :(
The only places ive found to be any good is the local
council
recycling yard where you can "sneak" out a few items. Usually plenty
of amstrads cpc and wpc's there, but i found some Sun stuff last week!!
My UK-local one's hopeless - everything seems to go to the local computer
recycler, which is the same outfit that tear vintage stuff apart for gold scrap.
cheers
Jules