When the end really comes

[Howard Lowndes]

On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Pearl Louis wrote:

> On Monday 06 Jan 2003 9:30 pm, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Michael Still wrote:
> > > On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, David Gibson wrote:
> > > > So, is there anything I can do with the corpse, which doesn't involve
> > > > throwing it, with whatever PCBs, heavy metals and other nasties it
> > > > contains, straight into landfill?
> > >
> > > Foot stool. Garden ornament. Door stop.
> >
> > Local scrap metal merchant.
> 
> Unfortunately the main problem environmentally is the electronics not the 
> case.  It contains all sorts of nasty things like mercury, chromium and 
> brominated flame retardants (apparently scrap electronics has taken over 
> batteries as the primary source of mercury in landfills).  If you send it off 
> to a scrap metal merchant they are likely to recycle the metal case and then 
> just throw the elecronics into the bin where it will end up as landfill 
> anywhere therefore defeating the entire purpose of trying to be 
> environmentally friendly...Incineration also doesn't work well on electronics 
> as there are hazardous materials in the plastics that get released in 
> incineration unless one is very very careful about how you go about doing it.  
> And if was a CRT monitor.  That's so full of hazardous material (isn't about 
> a 1/4 of its weight lead?) if I was a scrap metal merchant it wouldn't even 
> bother even trying to extract any metal from it and just throw it into the 
> nearest bin.

There is a mob in Melb (and poss in other cap cits) called MRI who 
specialise in that field.

> 
> Pearl
> 
> >
> > > My favourite is: grab the powersupply out of it, and use it for opening
> > > those CD ROM drives you always forget to empty before unplugging.
> >
> > I find there is usually a small hole that accepts a straightened
> > paperclip.
> >
> > > Technical aid for the disabled might also be able to help you.
> > >
> > > Mikal
> 

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Howard.
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