Technology Madness

Gravdigr · 03-04-2019, 09:54 PM

We give old phones to a local lawyer who either recycles them or gives them to a women's shelter for emergency phones; ya can still dial 911 with them. Gotta be a reasonably modern phone.

xoxoxoBruce · 03-04-2019, 11:16 PM

About the only things Goodwill won't take are TVs, A/C units and medical devices. I've taken a dozen truck loads over there. They did a double take on a 21" CRT monitor, probably to make sure it wasn't a TV.

Glinda · 03-05-2019, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

About the only things Goodwill won't take are TVs, A/C units and medical devices. I've taken a dozen truck loads over there. They did a double take on a 21" CRT monitor, probably to make sure it wasn't a TV.

Must be a regional thing, because the local Goodwill folks didn't blink when I dropped off my gigantic 25" CRT TV (purchased roughly 20 years ago). It weighed about 60 lbs and looked something like this:

I was SO glad to finally get that stupid thing out of the house!

tw · 03-05-2019, 09:40 PM

Staples once took that stuff. Then Staples got swamped with old electronics. So they changed their policy to only taking something if a consumer purchases a new one.

Many counties no longer take TVs or computers. Which ones? Those are counties littered with TVs and computers in vacant lots.

BTW, same problem is now about to get worse for recycling plastics. Too many Americans do not clean out plastics before putting them in recycle bins. And too many leave all those plastics bundled inside paper or plastic bags. So nations, who once bought and reprocessed American recycle plastics, are now rejecting it. Plastics that are dirty or inside bags have significantly less value.

Strangely enough, oil tankers are still recycled.

03-04-2019, 09:54 PM	#1
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03-04-2019, 11:16 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	About the only things Goodwill won't take are TVs, A/C units and medical devices. I've taken a dozen truck loads over there. They did a double take on a 21" CRT monitor, probably to make sure it wasn't a TV. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-05-2019, 09:40 PM	#4
tw Read? I only know how to write. Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 11,933	Staples once took that stuff. Then Staples got swamped with old electronics. So they changed their policy to only taking something if a consumer purchases a new one. Many counties no longer take TVs or computers. Which ones? Those are counties littered with TVs and computers in vacant lots. BTW, same problem is now about to get worse for recycling plastics. Too many Americans do not clean out plastics before putting them in recycle bins. And too many leave all those plastics bundled inside paper or plastic bags. So nations, who once bought and reprocessed American recycle plastics, are now rejecting it. Plastics that are dirty or inside bags have significantly less value. Strangely enough, oil tankers are still recycled. Last edited by tw; 03-05-2019 at 09:45 PM.

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