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Dumpster diving?

  • 13-03-2016 10:46am
    #1
    euser1984
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,977 ✭✭✭


    Given the WEEE and everything does anybody ever poke around to see if they can find any repairable and if so where do you go looking? Do you ask for permission etc.?


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  • #2
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,049 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    I would love to see a 'Re-use' as well as a Recycle dump.

    The numbers of electronic items, such as PCs whose parts (if not full device) could be re-used is huge, but these go for breaking up and "recycling".

    A terrible waste IMO.

    Thankfully I get a lot of items from people who ask if I want something before they place it for 'recycle' and thus parts get re-used.


  • #3
    pawrick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭pawrick


    Got a tube off an old dyson I spotted in the my local wee recycle centre one day so that saved buying a new one online, asked the staff if it was ok to take first though. There definitely seems to be some potentially worthwhile parts but my local place leaves all the electronics out in the open so they get weather damaged.


  • #4
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    I've got some good stuff but in the winter the ould rain gets the better of salvageable stuff fairly quick


  • #5
    Keplar240B
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 883 ✭✭✭Keplar240B


    Should WEEE be stored outside?
    I mean the bad stuff in them would just leak out into the ground water no?


  • #6
    Sh1tbag OToole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,973 ✭✭✭Sh1tbag OToole


    Keplar240B wrote: »
    Should WEEE be stored outside?
    I mean the bad stuff in them would just leak out into the ground water no?

    I'd say not.

    I reckon what happens is all the people involved in the running of these dumps go on a training course by some private training course contractor where they're told exactly how it should be stored and what type of jacket you should be wearing when you're storing it and how not to hurt your back while you're doing so. Then in real life they end up just horsing it outside because they gave the remaining portion of their budget to the training company and can't afford any indoor storage


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