[NBLUG/talk] Where to donate computers?

snoland at sonic.net snoland at sonic.net
Fri Aug 15 21:43:00 PDT 2003


At 09:58 AM 8/14/2003 -0700, you wrote:


>For disposing of monitors, CRC is the cheapest option in town.  County
>landfill wants more to get rid of a monitor than CRC wants.
>
>The 1 to 11 pounds of lead in a CRT (about 2lbs for a typical monitor)
>apparently leaches into ground water quite readily, so monitors must not go
>into landfills.  If you try to dispose of a monitor (or most electronics)
>via curbside pickup, you're likely to get fined.
>
>http://www.recyclenow.org/ has lots of local info about a lot of this.
>-- 
>Eric Eisenhart

I understand this, it was more of a disgusted comment. I'm not a litterbug. Still, it's silly to punish the public to recycle

my opinion..
...Scott



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