On 7 Feb 2010 at 13:37, Dave McGuire wrote:
THat
however, is secondary to
the fact that we have a WEEE direcrtive that means we have to
recycle electronic equipment and not throw it in the skip/dumpster.
And I have _never_ seen a PC in a skip/dumpster in London (and I am
certainly not going to trespass on various company sites to see if I
can steal one).
I would. :) But I see PeeCees on the curb quite often.
I don't imagine that the UK has any sort of computer reuse/donation
organizations, either. So the moment you quit using a PC, the police
Charity shops (the equivalent of thrift stores) don't normally accept and
sell mains-powered electrical devies, because there's another silly law
that sats that all electrical devices sold in that way have to be
safety-tested by a suitable elecrrician. _Occasionally_ the shops break
that rule (which is how I got my Amiga 500) or sell wall-wart powered
devices without the PSU (I got a nice Acorn Atom that way).
show up on your doorstep to make sure that you
won't give/sell the
As far as I know there's nothing to stop people giving or selling PCs to
friends.. But my friends never seem to have old PCs...
system to anyone else? As far as I know, the UK only
requires that a
PC be licensed if it's used to view television content. Or has that
changed? And how can they tell?
That has nothing to do with it.
The system that I'm typing this on was gained via the local Freecycle
network. Originally it came in a 4U rackmount case, but that's been
repurposed for a different ssystem.
We do have freecycle over here, but I've never seen any desirable
computer stuff listed on it locally.
-tony