hardware recycling

[Christopher Browne]

On 9/12/06, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Christopher Browne wrote:
> > On 9/12/06, Madison Kelly <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> paul sutton wrote:
> >> > is there a mailing list for free-net, I am sure Tom in England can help
> >> > or advise here. I am chatting on irc right now.
> >> >
> >> > Paul
> >>
> >> Colin indicates that the retain market is dieing (dead?) but maybe this
> >> is something a government sponsorship or program might help with? I'd
> >> love to hear any input. Could you maybe ask him to email me (mkelly at
> >> alteeve . com)? If he has the time, of course. :)
> >
> > Why *should* the government artificially push the value of this up?
> >
> > That tends to lead to trouble...
>
> Not to push the retail value up; To aid in diverting machines with
> useful life away from landfills and into countries that could still use
> them - as an example. This may be totally unfeasible, I admit, but it
> was worth asking if nothing else.

It seems economically infeasible.  We recently saw an example on this
very list; a fellow whose name escapes me was given a bunch of
circa-486 boxes to take them to Haiti to put together an "Internet
Cafe."

He quickly came to the conclusion that it was much more viable to
scrap them and buy some low-end new hardware for the purpose.
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