[XCSSA] Free monitors - first come, first get!!!

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I myself have put many old computers, monitors and TV's in the  
trash.  However, I decided last year to do the best thing and  
"recycle" all computers and monitors in the future.  (As a result,  
most haven't left the house yet because I haven't had time...and most  
recycling places aren't open on evenings and weekends.)

Here's the link showing the places available for computer and monitor  
recycling in San Antonio.

http://www.sanantonio.gov/enviro/solidwaste/RecyOptionsComp.asp? 
res=2560&ver=true

I brought one computer to The Morsi Corporation last year.  They were  
very nice and simply took it off my hands, no charge.  (The  
advertisement for Technology Recycling says they actually pay for  
stuff, but I wasn't willing to drive a few more miles to see how  
little I was going to get.)  But I'm planning to bring my biggest  
monitors to Corona Visions  I think I'll have to pay a pretty hefty  
charge for recycling a 19" monitor.  (Charges are listed as $17.95  
for a 17" monitor and 30 cents per pound for all other electronics.)   
But I think they might actually do the best job in preventing all the  
bad stuff from getting into groundwater.

I'll report how it goes after I do it.

OR, if anyone wants a barely useable (fairly dim and fuzzy) Radius  
19" monitor, just let me know.  This was a multikilobuck monitor in  
the 1990's.  It was designed for good color reproduction, and it  
still does a perfect black, but they were always somewhat dim and  
fuzzy when compared with other brands (such as Viewsonic), and it  
certainly hasn't gotten any better.  Weighs approximately one ton.

Other stuff on the way out (slowly) are several 68030 macs and dual- 
proc Pentium Pro's from 1999 in the generic metal cases that always  
cause finger cuts when you take them apart.

Charles


On Nov 18, 2007, at 10:43 AM, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:

>
> On Nov 18, 2007, at 10:24 AM, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
>
>>>> Both monitors are free to anyone who wants them.  Just let me  
>>>> know before the garbage man comes Tuesday.  They'll both be  
>>>> going out in the trash Tuesday if no one notifies me before then.
>>>> Chuck
>
> CRTs don't belong in the trash. There's quite a bit of lead in  
> those things, plus it's not cool to give them vacuum glass. If the  
> trash men are trained well enough, they won't even pick them up.  
> (Of course there's always dumpsters, but that doesn't make it right.)
>
>> At first, I was going to suggest recycling the old monitors, then  
>> I came across this article on CNN:
>>
>> http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/18/electronics.trash.ap/index.html
>>
>> The article mentions a company in San Antonio that collects old  
>> items for recycling.
>> Randy rjb@leebs.net
>
> If they work, I say give them to Goodwill.
>
>  - Bruce -
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