TOM WALKER wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT> TW> Darn. A couple of months ago I just took some to the Computer
RJT> TW> Recycling Fair they had in Spring Valley California.
RJT> TW> Looks like "E" bay time. :-)

RJT>Computer recycling fair?  How did that work?  I was looking at a
RJT>web site a while back for an outfit that did this sort of thing,  
RJT>where they charged people fees to take their old computers.  
RJT>Imagine that,  getting bunches of computer junk to play with and 
RJT>getting money for taking it,  too! I don't quite have a grip on how 
RJT>that would work,  though...

TW> I have taken stuff to two in recent years. They are sponsored by
TW> either a City or the county Goverment. They were held in high
TW> School Parking lots and take all Computers,Computer perfierals,
TW> and Electronic Ite ms(TV/VCR etc) with NO charge for Disposal.
TW> There are several Computer Recycling companies in this area but
TW> they Charge to take Monitors and TV's. Some par a little by the
TW> pound for the computer itself. It is an attempt to keep them out of
TW> hte Landfill. Two overiding reasons. First is the Lead and Heavy
TW> Metals involver contaminatinf the ground water. The other is that
TW> most places are running out of space to dump stuff. Here for a
TW> while they were Hauling Trash over to Arizona. But that was a plan
TW> to back haul sand as the Nutcakes have shut down almost all the
TW> river bed Sand operations basicly and there is a shortage for use
TW> in Cement, Plaster, and Stucco. They did bring sand i nform Tecate
TW> Mexico for a while but the Nutcakes here joined with the Nutcakes
TW> down their and shut down that operation.

They think the desert is gonna run out of sand?  Wow...     :-)

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