Re: RoHS AKA Woah, Hoss!


"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We live in the US and have three wheeled trash containers:

Black: garbage, mostly incinerated; no toxics

Blue: recyclables

Green: yard waste, food, anything compostable

We have two houses about 50 miles apart. Here we have grey for trash, blue
for recycables, and anything you want for yard waste. At the other house,
it is black for trash, grey for recyclables, and green for yard waste.

They are picked up every Tuesday morning. The blue bin gets mixed
paper, metal, and plastic, and they are machine+hand separated by the
trash company for recycling.

Additionally, we can make two calls a year for free pickup of big
stuff, furniture and general junk, and have lots of places we can take
electronics, paint, used motor oil, batteries, and toxics.

I get two coupons a year that allow me to bring in a car or pickup load to
one of several trash collection/sorting sites. The city used to run an
annual cleanup day where anyone could bring in just about anything to two or
three temporary sites. That was much better in my mind.

There is also a toxic-trash pickup every Saturday at the city truck yard.

There's a 5-cent deposit on soda cans and bottles, and most
neighborhoods have someone who comes by early in the morning and digs
those out of the recycling bin before it's collected.

UAMs - "Urban Aluminum Miners"
Ours is a nice
old Chinese lady. If there was a similar but larger deposit on
electronics, we wouldn't need ROHS, or at least the lead-free part.

We save every thing with CRV value and haul it in when we get a pickup load.
The trip last month netted $93.


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