19 Jan
2012
19 Jan
'12
3:53 p.m.
Honestly, most people would be *offended* if you
destroyed a perfectly
good machine instead of repurposing it.
You think too highly of the general public.
The general public feeling about recycling is a mile wide and an inch
deep. Once the stuff is out of their hair, they lose interest very
quickly.
The most efficient form of recycling is reuse for
another purpose.
Yes, I agree, but there is pretty much always far more supply than
demand for the repurposed equipment.
Keep in mind that the scrap stream is now *very* efficient. Stuff that
goes in comes out as over 99 percent good material. There is very
little that we have not yet figured out what to do with (ferrites,
fiberglass, glass). Everything else is ca$h.
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.
It is a good business model. But, what do you do with the excess? Grind it.
Sending the stuff to the county landfill is NOT a good business model.
--
Will