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On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:05:33 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 4/19/2024 2:43 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>> More Hardware Follies: Another New Old PC
>> ---------------------------------------------
>> 
>> Well, it's a new to me. Old to everyone else... even to its previous
>> user.
>> 
>> Just another rig found and - ever-so-briefly - added to the herd.
>> Located in the usual way, and given the usual treatment. Found
>> abandoned, sitting lonely on the curb,
>
>Seriously, where the BLEEP do you live that people are setting computers 
>out on the curb?!?!  There are half-a-dozen electronics recycling drop 
>off places within 10 miles of me, two of them within 2!! miles!

While I don't condone it, I do understand why people do it. The
closest e-waste drop-off is about fifteen miles away, and is only open
four days a week (none of them weekends) and then only until 4:30 pm.
It's a right pain to rid yourself of electronics properly. Much easier
to just dump it out with the rubbish and let the bin men take it away.
Especially since it's fairly urban - lots of apartment buildings - and
most people probably just leave their old electronics in their
building's trash room for the super or staff to move to the skips. 

(It's not really being left right out on the curb where cars drive by.
But there are a number of alleys I slip through as shortcuts on my
daily walk ;-)

Offerings have been slim recently, though. Either there is less being
trashed, or others are getting to the stuff quicker than me. I doubt
people are becoming more conscientious about their garbage habits.