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On 5/23/2025 9:21 AM, John Levine wrote:
> According to Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net>:
>>>> Don’t you have regulations, or at least discouragements, against e-waste
>>>> going to landfill?
>>
>> Yes, in the last two decades.   A quarter century ago, not so much.
>>>
>>> This is 'Murica, pretty much everything goes in the trash here...
>>
>> Nonsense.
> 
> It's sort of true. In my town they pick up paper and containers and yard waste
> at the curb but I have to take electronics down to the recycling dump. Most
> people don't bother.
> 

Theoretically, they pick up recycling (paper and plastic), but whether 
or not they bother is another matter. Usually the garbage trucks come by 
and empty both bins, so it might not make much difference.

Though, looking, it might depend on state as well.


Say, for example, if rules in Oklahoma might be different, say, from 
those in Texas. Or, maybe Arkansas might be different still, possibly 
even more different. Who knows...


There are likely more local variations as well, say:
Where I am living here, city people get on your case if you leave cars 
parked on the lawn in one's yard.

Where a relative lives (slightly further out), they seemingly don't care 
if cars are parked on the lawn.

But, at the same time, it is also a place where the neighbors across the 
fence (the same ones that sometimes burn a bunch of plastic and similar) 
also have a part of the yard full of chickens.

Across another fence, there is a much bigger yard where often there are 
horses roaming around. Occasionally, one may also see people riding 
horses and similar as well (sometimes along the side of the road and 
similar).

But, say, where I am living, no one has or rides horses.

There are some people living in Kansas (sorta extended family, but not 
direct relatives in my case) where their yard is basically an open trash 
dump. But, at the same time, they also had pigs and goats, albeit in 
separate areas (IOW, not in the parts of the yard that were basically a 
trash dump).



Though, at the time of the old weird PC, was living in Nevada, and (at 
least, ~ 25 ish years ago), old PC's/etc went into general purpose 
dumpsters.

This place was different, basically desert, except that there were 
basically dirt roads and mobile homes. It was a bit of a walk to reach a 
paved road. IIRC, garbage cans (and trash pickup) weren't really a thing 
there.

When I was living in Arizona, it was similar, except that it rained more 
so dirt roads didn't hold up nearly as well. It also rained enough that 
cactus and sparse grass would grow; unlike the part of Nevada, a short 
distance outside of Reno, where it was dry enough that the dirt was 
relatively plant free, except in places where one actively watered it.


Though, for contrast, in this part of OK, it is different in that it is 
mostly wood-frame houses, and the roads are paved.


There are other differences as well, say:
   Where I am at now, there is city water and sewer...
   Where relatives are at, they have city water, but use a septic tank.
   Where I was in Arizona, it was well water and a septic tank (1).


1: Though, initially (before a well pump was set up), it was a 1000 
gallon water tank, and water needed to be brought in to refill it.

Though, at the place in Nevada, it was city water.


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