thanks for the replies this is really not easy to implement
but what we do in a very small way is 1. separate useable and repairable parts 2. the rest, segregate plastics, metals, etc. and sell 3. the circuit boards goes to a monthly collection event for these regards rene > To put this in perspective - this was one of the businesses my late > father and I were considering circa 2003 in the Caribbean. The risk in > this comes from costs of shipping to markets, as well as the costs of > starting production. For a long term business, there is a lot of risk. > > One company that I know of in Trinidad and Tobago is doing this, at > least partially, and I am watching them with interest. They are > offering, as an example, to recycle computer monitors for $200 TT > (roughly $35 US) - but when you drop off your monitor, you have to pay > them. I do not think that this is a viable business model, even with tax > breaks for companies, but I will wait and watch. I, for one, do not > consider the business one that I would want to get into because the > risks are high, the markets distant and the payoff low. > > In some areas, I don't see it working for smaller businesses. > International businesses might have better luck, but at the end of the > day if one cannot tap the consumer market the crap ends up in landfills. > And that ends up in water tables. And that, of course, will affect the > food production and even quality of life of people in a country. So... > one size does not fit all. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> hi Kwame >> >> on the upside, it can be an opportunity for ghana >> >> a lot of organizations have already written how to recycle pc's and >> other >> ict equipment >> >> the hardest part is to find buyers for the segregated pc parts >> >> china and india are prospects with their new appetites for metals >> >> surplus ict equipment (and other surplus materials) from the developed >> countries are really opportunities for developing countries >> >> in this case for school children >> >> just the right mindset and procedures need to be implemented >> >> reduce-reuse-repair-recycle >> >> regards >> >> rene >> y3k foundation >> > > -- > Taran Rampersad > Presently in: San Fernando, Trinidad > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.knowprose.com > http://www.your2ndplace.com > > Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/knowprose/ > > "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo > "The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine." - > Nikola Tesla > > _______________________________________________ > DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list > [email protected] > http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide > To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message. > _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://digitaldivide.net/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
