I asked someone at the local landfill's recycling center, and he said that if I see anything of interest, I can actually take it, if I bring something of my own to replace it (which seems quite fair).

I full intend to give that a try at some point }

I don't see Macs very often (especially pre-iMac ones), but there's often plenty of PC stuff that will work just fine with most recent PPC Macs (G3 and newer), so it's not a total loss.

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