On Sep 3, 2006, at 4:08 AM, Lee Jones wrote:

>> As a fellow dumpster-diver/envulturater

> Your mentioning dumpster-diving implies the trash stream.  In
> California, pretty much anything with a circuit board has to be
> treated as "electronic hazardous waste".  It may not be (legally)
> thrown away as trash.

Really?  The only thing I know of for sure that is haz waste at
the consumer level in TVs, batteries, and fluorescent lights.
There's assorted attempts to collect additional "e-waste", but
it isn't mandatory (yet.)

Of course, the side-effect of this is that your work environment
is likely to have special e-waste dumpsters, and there's no law
against extracting the interesting components from things as they
sit around waiting to be picked up, especially if you have permission.

Most of the stuff I "find" comes from work's "electronic waste"
"dumpsters", and goes back in slightly smaller pieces, missing
some of the more interesting bits...

We have twice-yearly special garbage pickups, when one is allowed
to discard one large item like a TV or appliance.   My old TV went
out a couple days early and was gone in less than 10 hours.  Legal
or not, I found that pleasing...

BillW

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