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How to throw away obsolete electronics
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 ? |
How to throw away obsolete electronics
"Daniel Santos" wrote in message ... 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 ? Doesn't your local reclamation/recycling centre have a special place for them? Mary |
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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 ? Join the Freecycle Group on Yahoo Groups relative to the area you stay in and someone will take it . Stuart |
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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 ? I would throw it in the bin. http://freecycle.org/ I doubt anyone would take it off you're hands though -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite |
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"Daniel Santos" wrote in message ... 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 ? Find a skip or your local council tip. It will be on ebay within the week. I put a monitor in the bin once and the bin lorry stopped! |
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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 ? Do they work or not? (not sure how much difference that may make?!) David |
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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. -- Dave Fawthrop dave hyphenologist co uk Google Groups is IME the *worst* method of accessing usenet. GG subscribers would be well advised get a newsreader, say Agent, and a newsserver, say news.individual.net. This will allow them, among other goodies to see only *new* posts. |
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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 do know everything, just not all at once. It's a virtual memory problem. |
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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. -- ..andy Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com |
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"Andy Hall" wrote in message ... I'm convinced that these tip guys make up the "rules" as they go along. They're jobsworths, right? |
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Andy Hall wrote:
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. -- .andy Posted Via Usenet.com Premium Usenet Newsgroup Services ---------------------------------------------------------- ** SPEED ** RETENTION ** COMPLETION ** ANONYMITY ** ---------------------------------------------------------- http://www.usenet.com It all started when they got wheels on the bins. In my day it was a cast iron bin in the wall that they had to hook out and sling it on their back,empty it and then hump it back to where it belonged. :-( -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite |
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On 2006-03-18, Andy Hall wrote:
[snip] 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. To dispose of three broken monitors legally will cost my employers around £250 pounds under the new legislation. The tip rules are designed to stop businesses offloading their commercial stuff by sending their IT chap round with a car load. The jobsworths seem to have forgotten that any business can quite quickly russle up a number of people willing to take random runs to the tip. Not that I'd suggest that any business do that, of course. Carl -- "D'you know, I don't think I've got it in me to shoot my flatmate, my Mum, and my girlfriend all in the same evening." - Shaun of the Dead |
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 19:52:27 -0000, "Mary Fisher"
wrote: "Andy Hall" wrote in message .. . I'm convinced that these tip guys make up the "rules" as they go along. They're jobsworths, right? Not usually. Following outsourcing, they typically seem to be pikies. The jobsworths are to be found in the town hall or as car park attendants or school caretakers looking like Deryck Guyler. -- ..andy |
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I have to throw away an old printer
If its a dot matrix, you`d be surprised at what they sell for on ebay these days ! -- --- Please add "newsgroup" in the subject of any personal replies --- --- My anti-spam address has "ngspamtrap" & @btinternet.com in it --- |
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The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote:
In my day it was a cast iron bin in the wall that they had to hook out and sling it on their back,empty it and then hump it back to where it belonged. :-( They still do that here. Its a plastic bin though. |
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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 ? ebay or freecycle. Freecycle works ok as long as you remember to put your approx location and if you state that you won't deliver (or will) else you'll get people asking you to deliver stuff miles. -- Get money off vouchers for everything http://www.moneyoffvouchers.co.uk |
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On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 20:05:36 +0000, Carl Inglis wrote:
On 2006-03-18, Andy Hall wrote: [snip] 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. To dispose of three broken monitors legally will cost my employers around £250 pounds under the new legislation. The tip rules are designed to stop businesses offloading their commercial stuff by sending their IT chap round with a car load. The jobsworths seem to have forgotten that any business can quite quickly russle up a number of people willing to take random runs to the tip. Not that I'd suggest that any business do that, of course. One of the biggest hassles for business is that you can dispose of Asbestos and nuclear waste (eg. ionization smoke alarms) at the dump provided you arrive in a car. In a van it's £50+VAT per trip even if it's hedge clippings. -- Ed Sirett - Property maintainer and registered gas fitter. The FAQ for uk.diy is at http://www.diyfaq.org.uk Gas fitting FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/GasFitting.html Sealed CH FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/SealedCH.html Choosing a Boiler FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/BoilerChoice.html |
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In message , simon
writes Find a skip or your local council tip. It will be on ebay within the week. I put a monitor in the bin once and the bin lorry stopped! I put 2 CRT monitors in a skip in St Neots and they both appeared days later in an auction in Bedford, the dead one made £10:00 and the working one £5:00 !!!!!!!!!! -- Bill |
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dennis@home wrote:
The3rd Earl Of Derby wrote: In my day it was a cast iron bin in the wall that they had to hook out and sling it on their back,empty it and then hump it back to where it belonged. :-( They still do that here. Its a plastic bin though. Fine, but are the binmen built like "brick sh**houses". ;-) the ones you get now are either spotty oik's or look as if they just walked out of burtons window. -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite |
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In message , The3rd
Earl Of Derby writes 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. It all started when they got wheels on the bins. In my day it was a cast iron bin in the wall that they had to hook out and sling it on their back,empty it and then hump it back to where it belonged. :-( You did mean corrugated, didn't you ... -- geoff |
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raden wrote:
In message , The3rd Earl Of Derby writes 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. It all started when they got wheels on the bins. In my day it was a cast iron bin in the wall that they had to hook out and sling it on their back,empty it and then hump it back to where it belonged. :-( You did mean corrugated, didn't you ... -- geoff Nope, corrugated is parallel rows of folds which look like a series of waves when seen from the edge. -- Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite |
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In message , The3rd
Earl Of Derby writes raden wrote: In message , The3rd Earl Of Derby writes 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. It all started when they got wheels on the bins. In my day it was a cast iron bin in the wall that they had to hook out and sling it on their back,empty it and then hump it back to where it belonged. :-( You did mean corrugated, didn't you ... -- geoff Nope, corrugated is parallel rows of folds which look like a series of waves when seen from the edge. Certainly not cast iron, it would be a) too heavy and b) too brittle - It would crack first time it was dropped with any force -- geoff |
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Colin Wilson wrote:
I have to throw away an old printer If its a dot matrix, you`d be surprised at what they sell for on ebay these days ! Who on earth wants them?! (hmm, I have one at the back of a wardrobe somewhere...) David |
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Ed Sirett wrote:
In a van it's £50+VAT per trip even if it's hedge clippings. Round here a householder needs a certificate for a van or certain size of trailer, otherwise it's commercial waste and charged via the weighbridge ... |
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Who on earth wants them?! (hmm, I have one at the back of a wardrobe somewhere...) David Anybody you uses multi-part forms for one.. Dave |
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Lobster wrote:
Colin Wilson wrote: I have to throw away an old printer If its a dot matrix, you`d be surprised at what they sell for on ebay these days ! Who on earth wants them?! (hmm, I have one at the back of a wardrobe somewhere...) David Still the cheapest way to run off a million invoices on preprinted stationery.. Just a ribbon every year or so, and that's it. We did finally switch to HP laserjets, and software forms on headed paper. BUT if you want to knock out a thousand invoices with tear off receipt strips - so that you already NEED your stationery stock pre printed, then a DM is the best way to put the data on them. |
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:39:29 UTC, Dave Stanton wrote:
Who on earth wants them?! (hmm, I have one at the back of a wardrobe somewhere...) David Anybody you uses multi-part forms for one.. And you can make good robot cranes out of them (says he, dragging it back on-topic)... -- The information contained in this post is copyright the poster, and specifically may not be published in, or used by Avenue Supplies, http://avenuesupplies.co.uk |
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In message , Lobster
writes Colin Wilson wrote: I have to throw away an old printer If its a dot matrix, you`d be surprised at what they sell for on ebay these days ! Who on earth wants them?! Someone like me who needs labels -- geoff |
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:54:19 UTC, raden wrote:
If its a dot matrix, you`d be surprised at what they sell for on ebay these days ! Who on earth wants them?! Someone like me who needs labels They do them for laser printers as well, these days...and inkjets! I still keep one just in case, though! -- The information contained in this post is copyright the poster, and specifically may not be published in, or used by Avenue Supplies, http://avenuesupplies.co.uk |
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In message , Bob Eager
writes On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:54:19 UTC, raden wrote: If its a dot matrix, you`d be surprised at what they sell for on ebay these days ! Who on earth wants them?! Someone like me who needs labels They do them for laser printers as well, these days...and inkjets! I still keep one just in case, though! So ... A box of Avery labels for £25 ? (not forgetting the cost of the cartridges). If I want 7 labels that's a sheet gone or 10,000 fanfold labels for £50 err ... no contest I used to use Avery labels, I've moved on -- geoff |
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:01:22 UTC, raden wrote:
If its a dot matrix, you`d be surprised at what they sell for on ebay these days ! Who on earth wants them?! Someone like me who needs labels They do them for laser printers as well, these days...and inkjets! I still keep one just in case, though! So ... A box of Avery labels for ú25 ? (not forgetting the cost of the cartridges). If I want 7 labels that's a sheet gone 1500 labels for a fiver...not pukka Avery, but good quality. I can afford a bit of wastage, since 10,000 cost me about 33 quid. or 10,000 fanfold labels for ú50 err ... no contest Perhaps there is... As for cartridges, I get 6000 pages for 25 quid. That's with original HP toners off eBay. Comparable with the cost of ribbons these days...page for page But it's obviously dependent on your usage...! -- The information contained in this post is copyright the poster, and specifically may not be published in, or used by Avenue Supplies, http://avenuesupplies.co.uk |
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 10:39:29 +0000,it is alleged that Dave Stanton
spake thusly in uk.d-i-y: Who on earth wants them?! (hmm, I have one at the back of a wardrobe somewhere...) David Anybody you uses multi-part forms for one.. Dave And anyone who wants multi-sheet printing (call logging for telephone systems springs to mind) -- You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. - Indira Gandhi |
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In message , Bob Eager
writes On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:01:22 UTC, raden wrote: If its a dot matrix, you`d be surprised at what they sell for on ebay these days ! Who on earth wants them?! Someone like me who needs labels They do them for laser printers as well, these days...and inkjets! I still keep one just in case, though! So ... A box of Avery labels for ú25 ? (not forgetting the cost of the cartridges). If I want 7 labels that's a sheet gone 1500 labels for a fiver...not pukka Avery, but good quality. I can afford a bit of wastage, since 10,000 cost me about 33 quid. or 10,000 fanfold labels for ú50 err ... no contest Perhaps there is... As for cartridges, I get 6000 pages for 25 quid. That's with original HP toners off eBay. Comparable with the cost of ribbons these days...page for page But it's obviously dependent on your usage...! And the fact that I can need anything from one label to 100+ .... at the click of a mouse button without messing around feeding sheets of paper in, pulling one label off, putting paper back, somehow (I don't know how) to start at label number 2 of a sheet Some of us have other things to do -- geoff |
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 20:45:53 UTC, raden wrote:
1500 labels for a fiver...not pukka Avery, but good quality. I can afford a bit of wastage, since 10,000 cost me about 33 quid. or 10,000 fanfold labels for ·50 err ... no contest Perhaps there is... As for cartridges, I get 6000 pages for 25 quid. That's with original HP toners off eBay. Comparable with the cost of ribbons these days...page for page But it's obviously dependent on your usage...! And the fact that I can need anything from one label to 100+ ... at the click of a mouse button without messing around feeding sheets of paper in, pulling one label off, putting paper back, somehow (I don't know how) to start at label number 2 of a sheet Exactly. As I said, it depends on usage. I usually print lots at once, so average wastage is only half a sheet. I still want the dot matrix..really must get on with the robot crane! Can't find the instructions though...basically you use the carriage motor to slew the jib, and the platen roller as a winding drum... -- The information contained in this post is copyright the poster, and specifically may not be published in, or used by Avenue Supplies, http://avenuesupplies.co.uk |
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from Andy Burns contains these words: Round here a householder needs a certificate for a van or certain size of trailer, otherwise it's commercial waste and charged via the weighbridge ... And even then of course, you're not to take commercial waste there in your permitted trailer! -- Skipweasel Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. |
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In message , Bob Eager
writes ge But it's obviously dependent on your usage...! And the fact that I can need anything from one label to 100+ ... at the click of a mouse button without messing around feeding sheets of paper in, pulling one label off, putting paper back, somehow (I don't know how) to start at label number 2 of a sheet Exactly. As I said, it depends on usage. I usually print lots at once, so average wastage is only half a sheet. One customer and one product line would be an asset in this case I still want the dot matrix..really must get on with the robot crane! Can't find the instructions though...basically you use the carriage motor to slew the jib, and the platen roller as a winding drum... I have 3 dead ones where pins have broken in the print head the print head costs not much short of a new printer -- geoff |
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:33:48 UTC, raden wrote:
I still want the dot matrix..really must get on with the robot crane! Can't find the instructions though...basically you use the carriage motor to slew the jib, and the platen roller as a winding drum... I have 3 dead ones where pins have broken in the print head the print head costs not much short of a new printer I've got the printer...I just can't find it! Somewhere behind the eight spare laser printers I expect... -- The information contained in this post is copyright the poster, and specifically may not be published in, or used by Avenue Supplies, http://avenuesupplies.co.uk |
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On 19 Mar 2006 20:26:38 GMT, "Bob Eager" wrote:
As for cartridges, I get 6000 pages for 25 quid. That's with original HP toners off eBay. Comparable with the cost of ribbons these days...page for page Obviously never heard of WD40 miracle ribbon rejuvenator :-) -- Peter Parry. http://www.wpp.ltd.uk/ |
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Daniel Santos saying something like: 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 ? Lob it over the hedge into your neighbour's garden. He'll be glad of the opportunity to create a skiffle band from it. -- Dave |
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Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Daniel Santos saying something like: 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 ? Lob it over the hedge into your neighbour's garden. He'll be glad of the opportunity to create a skiffle band from it. LOL, well done, I'm imagining the scene. BTW and relating to another thread, I hear the Poles are doing well. and doing a good job in Ireland atm, is that your experience? -- Holly, in France Gite to let in Dordogne, now with pool. http://la-plaine.chez-alice.fr |
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