Subj : Re: Bake your graphics card?
To   : Utopian Galt
From : boraxman
Date : Sun Feb 27 2022 21:17:18

 UG> b> In Melbourne, Australia, it's against council regulation to pick up har
 UG> b> rubbish from the street.  Another one of the stupid laws we have here. 
 UG> b> People will dump garbage on the street to go into landfill, but you're
 UG> b> not allowed to take it to give it a second life.  The same people who
 UG> b> ban this will talk about sustainability etc.  Still, we pick stuff up
 UG> b> but computers are rare now.
 UG> Talk to your councilors to see about having a swap shop to get certain
 UG> unwanted technology a second life to have some sustainablity. Call your
 UG> Lord Mayor and let her know what you feel.
 UG> 

We do have computer swap meets where this can happen, but COVID restrictions have severely limited the number of those swap meets.  They've only just started back upon, and only in some places.

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