On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, J.C. Wren wrote:
> Once you have scrap (and have picked it clean, requiring a secondary
> warehouse and museum space), can you economically separate the chaff from
> the wheat? Austin Electronics has about 200 13" VGA displays in the back.
> They can't toss them, and no one wants to buy them. Do you accept this kind
> of material? If a person can't dispose the whole kit and kaboodle at one
> shot, they're much less likely to bother with recycling.
There are recycling options for CRT's and just about anything else
electronic. You just have to find the right processors.
> Do you hire cheap labor and build systems for homeless people? Strip
> components and eBay them? Try to do metal separation?
That's what volunteers are for, which is why you'd probably want to make
it a not for profit, give yourself a fat salary, and do some public good
in the process.
> I'm not putting down the idea by any means (and I'd love to have such a
> place to browse), but can one reallistically make some above a
> subsistence-level enterprise out of it? Are there are cases that are
> successful? What's the operational cost of such a facility? Are you
YES.
See
http://www.accrc.org/
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