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

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

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

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 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!

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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Bill

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
...


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

They're jobsworths, right?

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 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.
:-(

--
Sir Benjamin Middlethwaite

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.

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

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

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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Sealed CH FAQ http://www.makewrite.demon.co.uk/SealedCH.html
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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 !

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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

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

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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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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- Indira Gandhi

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.

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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geoff

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

--
geoff

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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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?

--
Holly, in France
Gite to let in Dordogne, now with pool.
http://la-plaine.chez-alice.fr

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Holly, in France"
saying something like:

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?

Bit of a two-edged sword that one. Ot1h, the Poles are well-regarded by
most as being hard-working and reliable; otoh, they're often prepared to
work for half the going rate and employers love them for that, but
others don't.
--

Dave