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Andy Hall
 
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Default How to throw away obsolete electronics

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:31:53 GMT, Gully Foyle
wrote:

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:12:22 +0000, Dave Fawthrop
wrote:

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 17:23:31 +0000, Daniel Santos
wrote:

|I have to throw away an old printer and a portable radio and cassete
|player. But I don't want to just send it to the garbage. What would you do ?

Our local tip^h^h^hdomestic waste site has a special container for
electronic stuff. I think someone strips the good stuff out.


I took two old but working monitors to the local tip a few weeks back
and was told that new council regulations stated that only one monitor
could be brought to the tip per household per week! When I blinked at
this he said "I'm not looking - put them over there"



I'm convinced that these tip guys make up the "rules" as they go
along.

It gives them the opportunity to wield some power ranging from flat
refusal to making their customers bow and scrape to getting eternal
thanks that they allowed the "rules" to be bent.



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..andy


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