[Noisebridge-discuss] New donations/e-waste

[Corey McGuire]

Very soon, I will be endowed with a u-haul.  As soon as I know when this
will happen, I will ping the list.

Is this desired?  I cannot lead the clean up as I will be packing said
u-haul.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Will Sargent <will.sargent at gmail.com>wrote:

> That's the idea, yes.  I can't commit to it long term, but I think that
> after the initial rush it should settle down and we can do bi-weekly or
> monthly runs instead of weekly.
>
> Will.
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Rachel McConnell <rachel at xtreme.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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