19 Jan
2012
19 Jan
'12
12:09 p.m.
On 1/19/12 8:51 AM, "Richard" <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
In article
<CANij+dfniZ9iTr72Zk4jb0nNAykRXi+kjLYvYJa08h65W6HLJw at mail.gmail.com>,
William Donzelli <wdonzelli at gmail.com> writes:
Honestly, most people would be *offended* if you destroyed a perfectly
good machine instead of repurposing it.
"Recycling" isn't just about reducing inputs to their constituent atoms.
The most efficient form of recycling is reuse for another purpose.
Except for the county landfill, every place I know locally that
recycles computers first examines them to see if they can be
reasonably put to some sort of reuse.
Reusing and repurposing computers is *much* more "environmentally
friendly" than scrapping them.
Especially since much of the "recycling" stream ends up dumped in the
third world. -- Ian
So if
people brought him all those computers with the understanding
they'd
be recycled .... but instead he kept that all for
his personal
enjoyment,
and now he's trying to make a huge profit
from them .... that smells
bad.
If they expect the machines to be recycled, they should be asking for
Certificates of Destruction. [...]
But really, most people just do not care.