[Noisebridge-discuss] CRT disposal is free in the state of California

jim jim at well.com
Fri Oct 17 21:52:00 UTC 2008


i like alameda county computer resource center: 
http://www.accrc.org/ 
they support the free and open source software 
community along with low-budget types such as 
non-profits and single parents. 

they take anything electronic (including CRTs). 
i am willing to take stuff to them. 



On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 13:59 -0700, Alex Perez wrote:
> A couple of years ago, under State Bill 50 (see http://store.earthlcd.com/POLICIES-California-Recycling-Fee 
>   ) the State of California switched from a recycler-paid model to a  
> consumer-paid model for CRT and LCD recycling. Once again, I want to  
> explicitly clear up the reality that it costs $0 to recycle a CRT of  
> any sort (TV, etc) in the state of california. All in-state buyers now  
> pay a small fee up-front at purchase time, which finances those of us  
> who bring LCDs and CRTs in to be recycled.
> 
> Furthermore, LCDs are not more environmentally friendly than CRTs.  
> Plenty of very intelligent and progressive folks seem to operate under  
> this severely mistaken assumption, and the vast majority of LCDs to  
> date do contain mercury, the bioaccumulation of which is a serious  
> potential problem.
> 
> 
> On Oct 17, 2008, at 1:39 PM, jim wrote:
> 
> >
> > ACCRC takes CRTs gladly, at least they did
> > a couple of months ago.
> >
> > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 12:09 -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote:
> >> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:40:47AM -0700, grey wrote:
> >>> So we've talked about not having CRT's donated, which I think is a
> >>> great idea.  But I've also been seeing a bunch of 10/100 hubs  
> >>> showing
> >>> up.  I don't know about the rest of you guys, but these things were
> >>> seriously out of date a decade ago, so unless someone is planning to
> >>> strip the tiny linklight LED's off them for projects I'd kind of
> >>> rather not see anything network gear like this showing up.
> >>
> >> The strong distinction with CRTs is, it *costs* money to dispose of
> >> them.  No matter how many 10baseT hubs we accumulate, we can drop  
> >> them
> >> off at ACCRC / Green Citizen for free.  Whereas, CRTs are $5 or  
> >> more per
> >> tube to dispose of properly.
> >>
> >> The great thing about cheapo network hardware is that it draws very
> >> little current.  I'm uber pleased we got that managed Cisco 100baseT
> >> switch, but it draws 32W of the 70W total for the networking closet
> >> (Soekris + 100baseT switch + WRT54G + Ruckus + Fonera VoIP = 40W).
> >>
> >> -andy
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