[SHAG]

Hi,

My wife noticed a local tech company offering their bi yearly no pay drop off of E waste. You can bring any amount and any E waste. So this morning I gather up literally 15 years worth of basically not usable or salable items to this drop off. I had probably 6 motherboards, a few old PCI and ISA cards. Pre Direct X cards and some other assorted junk such as cables. Then on top of that two older CRt monitors and 8 CD ROM drives.

So I finally pull my truck to the spot directed by an unloader. He looks at the 50 gallon plastic bin full of everything I could last night that was getting junked. He notices a few items like a cordless keyboard that doesn't work and a P35 based non working motherboard. His eyes lit up and took those items out of the bin. The rest of into the bin. I really don't know what was going on there outside the fact this guy thought he hit the mother load but I really didn't have the heart to tell him the MB didn't work and the MB company did not replace the board since they claimed I "modified" the board. (That's another story there.) So I stripped all the aluminum heat sinks off for scrap pile and junk the board.

I would hate to see him try to make a build out of it only to waste a good CPU and memory. I don't know why this guy was taking stuff that was being dropped off. I think next time I should just drill a hole into the MB like they do for HDDs to pretty much make it know that it is no good. I would say some of it was good but a good chuck you could see it was no good. Oh and the one guy was saying how they were thinking about charging for the TVs next time. They had 1 of 3 trailers full of CRT TVs. I was actually to see if any body dropped off an LCD or anything like that.

Score on for the environment. They should have more of these E waste deals and help people get rid of a lot of this stuff. Could give some people jobs dismantling some of this crap like plastic housing for electronics.