When the end really comes

[Chris Henman]

How about Revolve at the Mugga Lane tip?   What do they do, apart from 
sell off what they can?

Howard Lowndes wrote:

>On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Pearl Louis wrote:
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>>On Monday 06 Jan 2003 9:30 pm, Howard Lowndes wrote:
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>>>On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Michael Still wrote:
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>>>>On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, David Gibson wrote:
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>>>>>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?
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>>>>Foot stool. Garden ornament. Door stop.
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>>>Local scrap metal merchant.
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>>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.
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>There is a mob in Melb (and poss in other cap cits) called MRI who 
>specialise in that field.
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>>Pearl
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>>>>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.
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>>>I find there is usually a small hole that accepts a straightened
>>>paperclip.
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>>>>Technical aid for the disabled might also be able to help you.
>>>>
>>>>Mikal
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