Check out the Dell recycling program. They will pick up any brand of
computer or peripheral including monitor at your house for recycling.
Mike Miller
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From: "David Ecklein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 10:34 PM
Subject: Re: [GNHLUG] Re: Hosstraders Dead, but NEARFest Lives!!
We have a parallel problem to this in many small NH towns (including ours,
Rumney). We are nickle-and-dimed at the dump for many things besides
CRTs.
Since they charge $5 to $10 to dispose of them, it is not uncommon to see
a
mattress rotting away in an otherwise beautiful ravine, or an old monitor
leaching out into the groundwater who knows what, as a result.
Enforcement
is difficult.
Is there really no way to recycle monitors? In the sense of reclaiming
enough material to at least pay for the disposal.
Sigh...
Dave E.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org>
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [GNHLUG] Re: Hosstraders Dead, but NEARFest Lives!!
On 3/19/07, Bill Sconce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The whole idea has drawbacks.
True, true.
> Example 1a: Just asking people to not bring CRT monitors would be
> effective at some level. That is, most would comply. The ones
> who won't comply will bring them in anyway.
Fair bit of truth in that. The main problem with an outright ban is
that those who want to bring a tube for legitimate reasons would be
barred. Used oscilloscopes come to mind.
> (Are the organizers thinking of searching vehicles?)
Heh. I'd like to see them try, given the volume of crap shoved into
most vehicles!
Seriously: Given that the only reason to bring a CRT is to use it or
sell it, both of which require exposure, simply walking around looking
for untagged CRTs would likely be a pretty effective enforcement.
Someone could smuggle a CRT in and out, keeping it hidden the whole
time, but that's rather pointless, any in any event, doesn't effect
the operators. Someone could smuggle a CRT in and then dump it on the
sly, of course, but you can do that anywhere, without paying an
admission fee first.
> Example 2a: Asking for a $20 deposit requires issuing chits of SOME
> kind and tracking them with 100% accuracy.
They make disposable stickers/tags that suit this purpose, and said
can be had very cheaply, if you buy in bulk. (Whether the operators
have obtained any such, I dunno.)
100% accuracy is not needed. Only enough accuracy to make it more
cost-effective to administer the deposit system vs rolling the cost of
disposal into the admission fee.
"The purpose of a car alarm is not to make it impossible to steal
your car. The purpose is to make it easier to steal the car in the
next space over."
> Without an accurate control system, some
> of the CRTs which come in under other stuff would go out on top,
> grabbing a deposit "refund" on the way.
One hopes the operators are not *that* naive. (Such hopes have
proven optimistic in the past, of course...)
> Example 2b: Without an accurate control system, some people who are
> entitled to $20 back on the way out (e.g., the buyer of suct a CRT)
> might not get it. A hassle.
Presumably, the hassle would have to exceed the supposed value
obtained by bringing the CRT in.
From my point of view, the real problem I see with a deposit system
is that it may increase the incidence of illegal waste dumping
immediately outside the environs of the host site. Presumably, the
local authorities will eventually figure that out, and complain to the
host site operators, who will in turn complain to the event operators.
Hence the WEEE/RoHS stuff in the EU. Not that that helps the
hamfest people any.
--
"One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel / And the next it's rolling over
me"
-- Rush, "Far Cry"
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