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| bd139:
Quick note as I used to deal in electronics years ago. If you find out who the recycler is, they will probably sell you the stuff rather than recycle it. It’s much more profitable to sell it to you than recycle it. There are a few people I know who work for WEEE disposal here in the U.K. and they to this day resell more stuff than they crush and part out. |
| Muttley Snickers:
The City of Darebin still has the kerb side collections and the last flyer they sent out just prior declared that professional scroungers would be prosecuted, we did witness many large vans collecting white goods, bed frames and other metallic objects probably for the scrap metal value, I've just moved to the City of Whittlesea and not unlike the council itself have little or no clue as to the goings on up this way. ::) :P |
| IanMacdonald:
Most of this is due to scrooge-type bureaucracy. Departments have a budget, but if a department improves its efficiency and reduces its costs, then it gets penalized by having its budget reduced. So, they always use up their budget so it can't be reduced next year. If they don't actually need new gear they just throw away some serviceable stuff. I recall employees at a certain defence manufacturer reporting that a skip full of near-new electronics hand tools was sent to landfill. Employees were strictly warned not to take any of them for personal use. Probably because if they were seen around then someone might twig that they didn't need replacing. :-X |
| bd139:
The NHS are worse. My brother-in-law handles a trust's inventory. They just paid a recycler to take 500-ish monitors and desktops away. These hadn't even been unboxed. They fucked up their windows 7 deployment so they just sat there for 4 years. Then they bought new ones for windows 10 which are sitting in a warehouse and they can't proceed because the clinical systems don't work on windows 10 yet ... :palm: |
| Zucca:
--- Quote ---In 2017, some electronics units were sent to scrap yard by an economic court for a crime they didn't commit. Some EE promptly escaped from a maximum-security stockade to the EEVBlog underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as engineers of fortune. If you have an EE problem... if no one else can help... and if you can find them... maybe you can hire... The EE SWAT-Team --- End quote --- We should set up an EE SWAT Team, only trained people with no fear. We don't follow company laws, we don't care about taxes, we just want justice. If you ever see EE equipment going to the scrap yard call us. We will make justice and rescue what can be saved. For Germany and Italy area I will coordinate the operations. Send me a PM. No, it´s not a joke. |
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