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peterthenovice:

--- Quote from: tom66 on April 06, 2013, 05:46:40 pm ---Well... I was walking to the shops today and saw a 26" LCD TV next to the bins... got it home (asked them and they said take it, it's faulty) and found it has a bad cap on the PSU... will turn on after warming up. Not bad for free ;). Luckily the council here isn't nuts about people dumping electronics outside their house... but where my dad lives (London) they will fine you for getting the recycling bins mixed up!

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sweet deal! ^-^

ivan747:

--- Quote from: tom66 on April 06, 2013, 05:46:40 pm ---Well... I was walking to the shops today and saw a 26" LCD TV next to the bins...

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Put one of those in the trash here and it disappears in 30 minutes, like magic!

EEVblog:

--- Quote from: tom66 on April 06, 2013, 05:46:40 pm ---Luckily the council here isn't nuts about people dumping electronics outside their house...

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With my local council, if you dump anything on nature strip more than 24 hour before your scheduled pickup they class it as rubbish dumping which carries large fine.
I hate how they changed the collection system to everyone on the street being the same week, to three individual scheduled pickups a year.
So instead of having only a few days a year when the street would be filled with garbage, we now have someone do it every week.
The benefit of the big cleanup was that everyone would know about it, and would go hunting for the junk. Half of it would be gone before the truck got there, and hence inline with the councils policy of everyone (including them) shoulddo everythign they can to recycle and reduce what goes to the tip  ::)

mikeselectricstuff:

--- Quote ---If the local councils are making money or getting a kickback from curbside collection items then that would be quite the scandal...

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Why? If a council makes more from recycling than it costs to collect, that's a benefit to taxpayers.
Failing to minimise collection costs by making money from profitable recylables would be a scandal.
 

digsys:

--- Quote from: mikeselectricstuff ---If a council makes more from recycling than it costs to collect, that's a benefit to taxpayers.
Failing to minimise collection costs by making money from profitable recylables would be a scandal.
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A while ago, our council introduced the 4 bins system. GREAT ! I thought. Early on, I just missed a recyclable collection,
but since the depot is just up the road, I said to myself .. do the right thing and drop it off.
I put the stuff in my wagon and drove to the depot .. drove around until I found the truck .. where I saw them dumping
the recyclables in the LAND FILL Pile !!!!! FFS !! On enquiry .. "we can't process that much, besides it costs too much"
When I looked into it a bit more, it got worse !! So now I don't ask .. problem FIXED :-)

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