Comments on: Another DTV Transition Cost: Tech Trash

By: Condensed Knowledge – June 14, 2009 – Lists - Raoul Pop

Condensed Knowledge – June 14, 2009 – Lists - Raoul Pop — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:31:01 +0000

[...] Another DTV Transition Cost: Tech Trash [...]

By: ecco6t9

ecco6t9 — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:16:47 +0000

When I take cans in I get paid.

When I take and old broken monitor in I have to pay them, when I can just dump it at the lot 2 blocks over.

By: JDoors

JDoors — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:06:12 +0000

When I buy a new car battery or tires, there’s a ‘recovery’ charge listed separately on the bill, allegedly to pay for proper recycling. However, I suspect most of that gets frittered away, with very little actually going to solve the problems of toxic waste. Tires and batteries are still being shipped overseas to minimally or un-regulated recyclers.

Apparently, there just aren’t enough concerned (or economically self-destructive) citizens to force the TRUE costs of recycling onto ourselves. I know I’m perfectly happy to have my glass, metal, paper and plastic hauled away each week for “free” (even though I know it’s not really free) and much of it cannot and never will be economically recycled and winds up in a landfill anyway. But hey, “I recycle!”

The true costs of recycling electronics? Whoa. I don’t even want to think about that. (Guess I’m not concerned enough …)

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:45:33 +0000

Don’t recycle.
Just toss into the local dump.
That way those valuable materials will be close at hand when we run out.