about plastics

When the grant money dried up, the PI's (permanent investigators...I think.

PI in the research world stands for "principal investigator"

With your dishwasher tub, do this:

Sometimes i cut them in 4 pieces with my sawzall and put them in the garbage tote.

Or put the cut up pieces in the trash recycling (if you are required to do so) and see if they take it as HDPE (which I think is #2 plastic)

There was a guy or two on here in the past that sold ABS plastic (such as most older printers and computers) had for an outer shell but it was only in certain larger metros and you needed a lot of it (they were getting about a penny a pound for it). At the time, it was about the same as clean corrugate cardboard. ABS plastic is a thermo-set plastic so it can't be re-melted and made into something else, such as a thermo-form plastic (think #1 & #2 plastics). The post-consumer market for ABS was in a ground up form, although I don't remember what the end uses of the "pellets" were...