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 ?

"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

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

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
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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!

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

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.
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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"



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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.



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"Andy Hall" wrote in message
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I'm convinced that these tip guys make up the "rules" as they go
along.

They're jobsworths, right?

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.



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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.
:-(

--
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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
--
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my Mum, and my girlfriend all in the same evening." - Shaun of the Dead

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.




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..andy

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 !

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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.

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.


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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.


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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 !!!!!!!!!!



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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.

--
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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 ...

--
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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.
--
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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

--
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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

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 ...

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

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.

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)...

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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


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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!

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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

--
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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...!
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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)

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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


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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...

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The message
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!

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Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

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


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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...

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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 :-)

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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

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?

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