TLUG and government grants

[Meng Cheah]

Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I don't know about the Toronto project, but the Portland FreeGeek 
> project has a very elaborate way to sort, test and classify incoming 
> hardware as re-usable or not. The first priority is to try to reuse 
> things, especially those which can be brought back to life with a new 
> capacitor here or a new power supply there.
> When deemed unreusable, some components (such as the metal from most 
> cases) can go right to recyclers. Other stuff such as power supplies and 
> monitors and disk drives still contain some recyclable materials, and I 
> believe there are companies that can extract it. Stuff that can't be 
> reused or recycled still needs to be processed to make sure that no 
> harmful elements (such as mercury) exists before seeing landfill.

That is elaborate. The Brampton project William is referring to is 
below. It consists of only 3 people.
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1133566816830

As for Toronto's unwanted computers, I hear that some of them are ending
> up in Michigan. :-)

I sent a query to accesstoronto-b4MmrVKqEFv2chsKg/YiWw at public.gmane.org
 From the City of Toronto's 
(http://www.toronto.ca/accesstoronto/index.htm), "Send us your 
questions, concerns, feedback, etc. - our mandate is a timely and 
informative reply by the end of the next business day (often much sooner!)."

We shall see :-)

Meng

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