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Post #24 by Mike Richardson
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPeripherals
Post DateWed, 12 Mar 2008 - 21:57
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/school-auctions.12350/
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Concerning recycling:

It's my opinion, that while recycling is inevitable, in the particular situation faced here, where one person can take the Macs and get them into homes where people can use them, or another person can strip them down into bare metals and plastics and other basic products, that it is better to keep the Macs going. These are working computers. They will die, yes, and at that point let them be recycled, but they're useful, maybe not on the internet, but they run some useful programs well, and that utilization is more useful than a pile of metal.

There's situations where recycling is immediately useful. Someone said don't crush the rare CRTs, I agree - when I said crush all the CRTs I meant the huge gluts of DELL and Smile Int'l and other generic VGA type displays clogging up the school warehouses currently. As a whole tens, maybe almost a hundred million VGA displays have been made but probably less than 10 million 5xxx machines, let's get rid of those VGA monitors and stuff.

That's all I have to say about it.

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