So I was saving the environment today...

SHAG · 09-12-2009, 12:40 PM

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.

Kindred · 09-12-2009, 01:49 PM

You'd be surprised.
Our township does haz-mat drop-offs bi-annually.
They get a few bucks per pound for certain E-waste from a recycler.
The recycler takes the rest of it as part of the deal.

Apparently a few of the guys made a contact or two of their own, and made a deal to get a few bucks for the stuff that the county's recycler won't take.

I've been in the process of cleaning out my old parts boxes this week as well.
Besides a rediculous number of sound/video and scsi cards, I've got almost a terrabyte of disks.......all in 40gb increments!

mrmag11 · 09-12-2009, 05:32 PM

They do have people to dismantle these parts, just ask the Chinese...

60 Minutes Story on E-Waste in China

BoBo · 09-12-2009, 06:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mrmag11

They do have people to dismantle these parts, just ask the Chinese...

60 Minutes Story on E-Waste in China

They also have in-country dismantlers. In CA, you can be a state certified E-Waste recycler which means nothing goes abroad until it's at the raw material level.

mrmag11 · 09-12-2009, 07:46 PM

Apparently it is illegal to export the waste now, to some extent. That's what that video was showing.

09-12-2009, 12:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
SHAG Molested by MAr FCM# 623 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Jersey	So I was saving the environment today... 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. __________________ MCB Political Talk...Sometimes a porn sub forum is just a better idea. Founding Member and Officer of Team Predator Don't trust me? Here is my Street Creed! M.Carter Brown's Feedback \| Automags.Org's Feedback \| Ebay's Feedback \| PayPal Verified

09-12-2009, 01:49 PM	#2 (permalink)
Kindred Will Code For Schlitz Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Neshanic Station, NJ	You'd be surprised. Our township does haz-mat drop-offs bi-annually. They get a few bucks per pound for certain E-waste from a recycler. The recycler takes the rest of it as part of the deal. Apparently a few of the guys made a contact or two of their own, and made a deal to get a few bucks for the stuff that the county's recycler won't take. I've been in the process of cleaning out my old parts boxes this week as well. Besides a rediculous number of sound/video and scsi cards, I've got almost a terrabyte of disks.......all in 40gb increments! __________________ Let's run the AirConditioners AND heaters...just to show everyone we can! CHAPPY FOR GENERAL: Because he'll shoot your mom to win a game. Strive for that moment when you're only a slice of pizza and a hooker away from paradise.

09-12-2009, 05:32 PM	#3 (permalink)
mrmag11 Seasoned Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Riverview, FL	They do have people to dismantle these parts, just ask the Chinese... 60 Minutes Story on E-Waste in China __________________ MCB Feedback

09-12-2009, 07:46 PM	#5 (permalink)
mrmag11 Seasoned Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Riverview, FL	Apparently it is illegal to export the waste now, to some extent. That's what that video was showing. __________________ MCB Feedback