Most amazing dumpster dive ever!!!!

[poynton]

Slightly OT

Dumpster diving is really "green" .. a real form of recycling!

Yesterday, I went for my swine-flu jab.
The doctor's has just undergone a computer system upgrade.

Outside, in a dumpster, was the old system .. 15-20 towers, printers, ups etc
in the rain and destined for the tip

criminal !!!!


Andy

[planet10]

Looks like a good donor for a lovely little 4W Class A PP

dave

[jackinnj]

5 Disc changer -- works:

[Ron E]

Originally Posted by jackinnj

5 Disc changer -- works:

I didn't know that levitation was one of the functions of that unit.

[Cal Weldon]

I thought it was holding down the feather light tape measure.

[chris661]

Originally Posted by john blackburn

Since England became "green" you are breaking the law if you remove anything from a dump.

It's a strange world when you can be fined for recycling something from the recycling centre, but most likely left alone if you fly tip it.

John

I've found that, if you ask the owner, they're generally happy to let you have what you want. In effect, the skip would be a storage place for something that would become a gift to any passer-by that liked the look of it.

[poynton]

I don't know about other countries but, technically, in the UK, removing items from a skip / dumpster, without the owners permission, is theft.

I have asked at my local dump if I could have some things only to be told, "No, we are not allowed to give or sell anything!"

Andy

[chris661]

Fetch the chain cutters - we're going in.

I've known people that have said that to me, then done something very deliberately (like putting the thing in a skip), then gone away for a coffee to give me a chance to get it.

It's a bit of a daft rule - you find something in a skip. It's going to be recycled/sent to landfill. You're not allowed to save that spot of landfill by taking it, even though the owner has clearly shown they don't want it any more.

We should probably start a campaign on that one.

[EC8010]

Originally Posted by poynton

The doctor's has just undergone a computer system upgrade. Outside, in a dumpster, was the old system .. 15-20 towers, printers, ups etc in the rain and destined for the tip - criminal !!!!

That'll be the effect of that criminal pay rise they slipped through a year or so ago.

This stuff about removing stuff from a skip (dumpster in US) is mad. If I "recycle" something from a skip I will gain far more value and sort the remainder better than if it is shipped half way round the world for slave labour to recycle. If I take it, I do so at my own risk, yet the excuse usually given by the jobsworths who want to stop you is "Health & Safety". Health & Safety is the number one reason for nothing getting done or creating pointless jobs. Eee, when I were a lad, I used to rummage through the local TV repair shop's rubbish pile with my penknife. Now, of course, that sentence would contain lots of lawbreaking - not least blatantly using a penknife.

[EC8010]

Originally Posted by rdf

Radio's just such a stange industry. You work with this stuff for years and the percieved value goes to zero ... ... at least a dozen Revox reel-to-reel machines.

I got these on their way to the dump. You can't let a Nagra hit a dump! And as for those KT66 and KT88...