[LUNI] Computer Donations

[Carey Tyler Schug]

I believe the "rules" for my city stated something like "a limit of 2 
computers/tv sets per month" I don't know if that means they feel that 
amount won't pollute the landfill, OR if that means they will take and 
recycle that much per household. On a similar vein, I know some towns 
will take batteries (e.g. C and D cells) if bagged and left next to the 
recycle bin.

Martin Maney wrote:
> On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:41:57PM -0500, Svaldi, Fred E wrote:
>   
>> I have a 15-inch CRT monitor.  Does anyone think it has any donation value,
>> or should I scrap it?
>>     
>
> If you can find someone who wants it, I would suggest you not worry
> about whether it's worth ten cetns or twenty cents.  :-/
>
>   
>> Goodwill wouldn't take it.  I was told I could throw it out with the regular
>> trash.
>>     
>
> In the sense that you might get away with it, I suppose that could be
> said to be true.  Please don't, though: monitors are full of fairly
> hazardous materials that should be properly recycled.  The annual
> splurge of freecycling events was last month, but there are some from
> time to time yet if you look around.
>
>   

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Carey Tyler Schug