While we are discussing getting rid of old stuff, I saw on Look East a short while ago and article about a company in Norwich that recycles computer hardware inlcuding peripherals. I have Googleg but all I can find is companies that deal with corporate disposals rather than individuals. Is the dump the only alternative for individuals? Ian
On 02/03/07, Ian bell <ianbell@ukfsn.org> wrote:
While we are discussing getting rid of old stuff, I saw on Look East a short while ago and article about a company in Norwich that recycles computer hardware inlcuding peripherals. I have Googleg but all I can find is companies that deal with corporate disposals rather than individuals. Is the dump the only alternative for individuals?
Ian
Can't help, I'm afraid but weren't there moves afoot to make dumping computer gear illegal? Did that ever happen or am I making it up? Peter.
samwise wrote:
On 02/03/07, Ian bell <ianbell@ukfsn.org> wrote:
While we are discussing getting rid of old stuff, I saw on Look East a short while ago and article about a company in Norwich that recycles computer hardware inlcuding peripherals. I have Googleg but all I can find is companies that deal with corporate disposals rather than individuals. Is the dump the only alternative for individuals?
Ian
Can't help, I'm afraid but weren't there moves afoot to make dumping computer gear illegal? Did that ever happen or am I making it up?
Peter.
Maybe we are talking at cross purposes. By dump I mean your local household waste disposal site, or recycling centre as they now like to be called, or, as it has always been called in our family, the dump. I checked at my local dump - they said they would take computer gear. Ian
www.freecycle.org i guarantee any computer bits and bobs will be snapped up in minutes Rick On 3/2/07, Ian bell <ianbell@ukfsn.org> wrote:
samwise wrote:
On 02/03/07, Ian bell <ianbell@ukfsn.org> wrote:
While we are discussing getting rid of old stuff, I saw on Look East a short while ago and article about a company in Norwich that recycles computer hardware inlcuding peripherals. I have Googleg but all I can find is companies that deal with corporate disposals rather than individuals. Is the dump the only alternative for individuals?
Ian
Can't help, I'm afraid but weren't there moves afoot to make dumping computer gear illegal? Did that ever happen or am I making it up?
Peter.
Maybe we are talking at cross purposes. By dump I mean your local household waste disposal site, or recycling centre as they now like to be called, or, as it has always been called in our family, the dump.
I checked at my local dump - they said they would take computer gear.
Ian
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Ricky Bruce wrote:
www.freecycle.org i guarantee any computer bits and bobs will be snapped up in minutes
I'll take you up on that guarantee. I joined frecycle a few years back when it was based in Norwich. I had several useful/valuable items to give away but when people heard I lived near Cromer they could not be bothered to come get them. Let's hope that now there is a North Norfolk branch I'll get a better response. I rely on you to take anything they won't ;-) Ian
Hah, perhaps i should have chosen my words more carefully and added the cavaet that on the Norwich list items usually go very quickly! The rest of Norfolk just heard news of Babbages adding machine..so i dont think they are ready for your old pc yet! Rick On 3/2/07, Ian bell <ianbell@ukfsn.org> wrote:
Ricky Bruce wrote:
www.freecycle.org i guarantee any computer bits and bobs will be snapped up in minutes
I'll take you up on that guarantee. I joined frecycle a few years back when it was based in Norwich. I had several useful/valuable items to give away but when people heard I lived near Cromer they could not be bothered to come get them. Let's hope that now there is a North Norfolk branch I'll get a better response. I rely on you to take anything they won't ;-)
Ian
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Ricky Bruce wrote:
Hah, perhaps i should have chosen my words more carefully and added the cavaet that on the Norwich list items usually go very quickly!
That's the trouble with you city folks, always going faster,faster, faster.. Now.....up.....here...in...Cromer ..... things...is...s.... bit...slooooowwweeeeerrrrr... more... relaaaaaxed loik.
The rest of Norfolk just heard news of Babbages adding machine..so i dont think they are ready for your old pc yet!
Wots adding? Some new kinda snake? --------------- Just checked recent NN freecycle messages - a chap offered some PC bits today and 3 hours later they were taken so maybe I'll shift 'em. Ian
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:38:03PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
While we are discussing getting rid of old stuff, I saw on Look East a short while ago and article about a company in Norwich that recycles computer hardware inlcuding peripherals. I have Googleg but all I can find is companies that deal with corporate disposals rather than individuals. Is the dump the only alternative for individuals?
Try freecycle, I have a feeling that a computer recycler in Norwich was on one of the local lists recently anyhow. Or is this stuff so old so as to be useless? Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li
Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:38:03PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
While we are discussing getting rid of old stuff, I saw on Look East a short while ago and article about a company in Norwich that recycles computer hardware inlcuding peripherals. I have Googleg but all I can find is companies that deal with corporate disposals rather than individuals. Is the dump the only alternative for individuals?
Try freecycle, I have a feeling that a computer recycler in Norwich was on one of the local lists recently anyhow. Or is this stuff so old so as to be useless?
Adam
Depends on your definitions of old and useless. ian
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:39:41PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
Depends on your definitions of old and useless.
Being able to run current software in some useful manner, or being of an architecture that is obsolete but capable of running software that isn't easy to run under emulation I guess. People trying to pedal pc compatibles that are slower than pentium cpus tend to not get rid of them. Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li
On Friday 02 March 2007 20:39, Ian bell wrote:
Adam Bower wrote:
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:38:03PM +0000, Ian bell wrote:
While we are discussing getting rid of old stuff, I saw on Look East a short while ago and article about a company in Norwich that recycles computer hardware inlcuding peripherals. I have Googleg but all I can find is companies that deal with corporate disposals rather than individuals. Is the dump the only alternative for individuals?
Try freecycle, I have a feeling that a computer recycler in Norwich was on one of the local lists recently anyhow. Or is this stuff so old so as to be useless?
Adam
Depends on your definitions of old and useless.
ian
By the way, do I rightly remember a page on the wiki for just such a purpose? I don't think it caught on very much - if not, tt might be worth reviving it. -- There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand binary, and those who don't.
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:46:39PM +0000, Ten wrote:
By the way, do I rightly remember a page on the wiki for just such a purpose?
I don't think it caught on very much - if not, tt might be worth reviving it.
Hmmn, not so sure about that, I recall a period about 3-4 years ago where I was burning and posting quite a few discs but that was before broadband was ubiquitous in rural areas. It might just be that everyone has fast connections now or gets discs from linux emporium/coverdiscs. Adam -- jabberid = quinophex@jabber.earth.li
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