Owen Densmore wrote: > Santa Fe'ers: Does anyone know where we can get rid of old computers > and their trappings? We have lots of old computer electronics and > don't know how to dispose of them. >
Put them in the boxes your new(est) computers came in, seal them well with packing tape, leave them in your car unlocked at the mall, someone else will magically dispose of them for you. I understand a variation of this was used often during the NY City sanitation workers strike a couple of decades ago. As always, it doesn't really solve the problem, it just pushes it off to someone much less likely than you to be responsible about it. Kinda like much of our foreign policy. Or you could do what I do, let it build up in your closet or shed until you can't stand it anymore, find a way to dispose of it and 10 years later kick yourself for letting it go! Like that Apple Lisa, Classic Color, NeXT, NeXT Color, etc... that I have let go of over the years! There are projects for recycling computers/peripherals to the third world, I have a nephew who spent years helping make our old junk work for schools in Africa... I'll see if I can find anything more about that... I think they asked a "donation" with each "donation", enough cash to defray the costs of transport, etc... it might have been as little as $20/computer/system. Strange economies we construct, eh? Good luck... ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
