Hello Ross,

 MV>> I appriciate the offer, but thanks but no thanks. I am trying to get
 MV>> rid of the obsolete stuff myself. Last week I dumped half a dozen
 MV>> monitors, some printers and a scanner:

 > Are you dumping them in a environmentally friendly manner.

I think I did.

We have a functioning waste reclaim system here. There is levy on all goods
that may involve a waste disposal problem. F.e. there is a EUR 10 levy on a
TV and EUR 25 on a refrigerator.

The flip side of the coin is that municipalities are compelled to accept
them for free and process them in a responsible way. So I dropped them at
the minicipal waste disposal site where they sort it out and process it
properly.

 > Last year my employer teamed up with Hewlett Packard, we
 > advertised the fact and allowed customers to drop off their
 > old computer equipment, monitors, printers, computers etc,
 > once a week I shrunk wrapped them and sent them back on one of
 > our daily crossdock trucks, they were then forwarded to HP who
 > moved it to one of their reclaimation facilities. I am not
 > sure but if the stuff was refurbishable they would repair it
 > and donate it to charity, else the environmental nasties were
 > removed or rendered inert, rare metals extracted and the stuff
 > ground down and disposed of.

I expect the same to happen with the monitors I dumped.

 > It was a success but the practice discontinued, it was labor
 > intensive.

That is why over here it is not left to private initiative but regulated by
law and under supervison of the authoriies.

Cheers, Michiel

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