Creating a Home E-Waste Drop Off Site - Your thoughts? - Page 2

Originally Posted by Mick

I still think it's a good idea (for me, anyway. It would depend on your circumstances). I already do something like this, only I don't have the trailer at the end of the driveway. I do my teardown in a five room cabin. My biggest issue is the plastic which entails a dump run every few days. As for the computer towers, all the ones I've gotten are metal covered with plastic so the scrap yard takes them. I take the plastic from the iMacs, eMacs, copiers etc a hundred pounds or so at a time. That way, I'm not overwhelming the landfill or myself. Same way with the CRTs. I take them in 10-15 at a time so Goodwill folks don't get overwhelmed. Once in awhile they'll infer that if this was a "business" there would be a difference.

Thank you Mick thats exactly my idea, heck I could take 5 to goodwill at a time so they dont get overwhelmed as its on my way to almost everything in town. If I was overwhelmed I could just shut the trailer down for some time.

Originally Posted by olddude

read the post: it is not the ewaste it's the other 80/90% of trash and garbage your "neighbors" will dump in the trailer/dumpster. I had dumpsters maybe a trailer will work better ? any way good luck let us know how it works out.

Alright, thats understandable, and I could reference you to read my original post where I said if that became rampant I would shut it down, also in my original post I stated that our community is mostly good people with a few bad apples so it could go either way.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

Most Goodwill's will take them, check with yours, as for mine, they will take them stripped with the back put back on. I leave all the plastic on the computer cases and take a load in to the scrapyard every so often for $12.00 a hundred right now. Might as well make some money off the steel, check for alum. cases. Watch for brass risers inside under the motherboards, also on the back might be an alum. panel around where the chords plug in. No sense throwing money away.

Thanks for putting my assumptions in bold in the quote, that's why I prefaced the statement with "I need to check into this"

Good tips on the cases, like you said, no reason to throw money away.

I know of a guy that did basicly the same thing that your talking about. He dose not do this in a residential area. He has a small building with a small parking lot, he parked a trailer with a sign that says "appliance drop off" he has so many appliances that he can't keep up with them. I am sure he has all his permits in order or he would have been shut down a long time ago. Now back to the thread at hand, one problem that I see is, you are leaving yourself open for big law suits. Even if you have insurance, if someone gets hurt putting something in your trailer or even if they were stealing something out of your trailer you can get sewed big time. Just something to think about. This thread has just given me an idea. I think I'll go talk to this guy that I talked about and see if I can buy any electronics from him or tell him if he will take electronics that I will buy them from him. I'll give him a list of things that I take and how much I'll pay for them. Thanks for posting this thread, I'll let you all know how this works out.