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What happens to the dumpster dive equipment?
.RC.:
--- Quote from: msknight on May 07, 2023, 05:47:27 am ---The other question for Dave is whether he's seen a change in the amount of things people are throwing out in the last couple of years due to Covid and the finance crunch... are people still throwing out the same quantity of still working items, or have they slowed down?
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Australia is still in general rolling in money at the moment (some people down on their luck are struggling though with the price of things increasing) so I doubt the wasteathon I see in his videos has slowed. I find it mindboggling what these businesses throw away.
Bud:
--- Quote from: VK3DRB on May 05, 2023, 03:47:10 am ---I don't understand why people throw things out without trying to get the fixed first, but I am pretty happy about it.
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Some apparently do try. I picked an LG 22" monitor from the curb couple days ago. Upon inspection it was clear the owner tried replacing the caps in backlight driver (and they did a very crude job so apparently did not have experience and just watched a few youtube videos) but that did not fix it. I then found one of the CCFL lamps burned. I am now reconfiguring the wiring so 2 lamps out of 4 will be powered, that will fix the monitor. Surely it will not run blasting bright but I run my monitors at 30% brightness max, so 2 lamps will do just fine.
Haenk:
--- Quote from: Bud on May 07, 2023, 10:58:47 pm ---Surely it will not run blasting bright but I run my monitors at 30% brightness max, so 2 lamps will do just fine.
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If stuff sits for year, it is often difficult to sell and likely not worth the effort (i.e. labour costs). Plus some liability.
I have listed some old computer stuff on ebay and it is selling off, but slowly. Funny enough, it sells for more in used condition than we sold it 10 years ago as new. But considering the costs, it would just be better to throw the stuff away. Which I don't like to do.
HighVoltage:
My brother is working in a larger hospital and you would not believe what ends up in their e-waste dumpster. It seem money does not matter in a hospital.
Every week he is sending me pictures of stuff in their dumpster.
And I have gotten some really good gems this way.
One could probably make a business out of this one dumpster.
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