[Noisebridge-discuss] New donations/e-waste

[Rachel McConnell]

Will, are you volunteering to make a dump/recycling run weekly?  Or get
a service to do so?  That would be SO AWESOME.  I can totally commit to
labelling some ... items ... and placing them in the elevator room.

Rachel

Will Sargent wrote:
> Sweet.  That takes care of at least some of the electronics.
> 
> I have access to a truck, so at this point it's a question of
> determining what needs to be labeled.
> 
> Here's the proposal:
> 
>  * Labels, instructions and a marker will provided to the trash room.
>  * Stuff in the trash room gets clearly labeled with a "remove on" date.
>  * Any special instructions should be also written on a label.
>  * Anything that is there on or after the date labeled, gets taken to
> the dump, or to e-waste.
>  * Pick up will start 3 pm Sunday and continue on a weekly basis until
> demand slacks off.
>  * Whoever takes out the trash will be reimbursed by Noisebridge for
> city dump costs.
>  * If you don't want it to be trashed, take the label off and take it
> out of the trash room.
>  * Stuff found without a label will be NOT be trashed, and taken out of
> the trash room.
> 
> Will.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Kelly <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>     <http://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
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