[Noisebridge-discuss] CRT donations to noisebridge

[Jake]

While the garbage company won't accept CRTs (or lead-acid batteries, or 
technically any lead at all) they are the bread-and-butter of e-waste 
collectors.

Thats right, if you want the e-waste guy to come to noisebridge and take 
all the other crap we've accumulated (and recycle it) you have to put some 
CRTs in there to pay for his blow.  bubba.  ya-ya.

More importantly, there are a lot of really cool things that have CRTs in 
them that people should not hesitate to donate - even an ancient 
vacuum-tube television (which ironically might not have a lead-shielded 
screen) would be cool, we could immediately rearrange its insides into a 
shortwave transmitter.

anyway, two things to remember:  e-waste collectors love CRTs and we love 
some things with CRTs in them.

Also, i called my e-waste friend and told him to come pick up our pile, 
and i peppered the pile with CRTs and chunks of aluminum and bits of 
copper wire.

-jake

Kelly hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com wrote:

http://www.sunsetscavenger.com/universalWaste.htm

I haven't seen any official documentation of this CRT donation issue.
That's one of the waste disposal issues I'm hoping we can pin down to
better streamline getting junk out of NB.

-Kelly

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 17:52, Andy Isaacson <adi at hexapodia.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 05:38:18PM -0800, Simon C. Ion wrote:
>> On 02/20/2011 04:04 PM, Andy Isaacson wrote:
>> > If they want a receipt, the following process works:
>> >  - they bring in the stuff
>> >  - a NB volunteer writes down what they donated, and the name+address 
of
>> >    the donor, and emails it to treasurer@
>> >  - our awesome treasurer emails them a PDF receipt
>>
>> Sweet. This is now documented at noisebridge.net/wiki/Donation
>
> Thanks!  We should also document a few other things:
>
> 1. we can't accept donations of CRTs unless they're very
>   special-purpose, because e-waste disposal of CRTs is very expensive
>   in California.  The exception is for unique devices, for example the
>   slow-scan CRT in the SEM or the vector CRT in an old arcade stand-up
>   console.  IMHO a special-purpose but uninteresting CRT, like from a
>   commercial security system, would not qualify.
>
> 2. we can't provide valuation information, the receipt will simply list
>   the items donated and it's up to the donor to provide a value if they
>   wish to claim a charitable donation for tax purposes.
>
> I'll put those on the wiki unless somebody else beats me to it...
>
> -andy