Mastodawn

Pretty good haul from the dump today! It was town's annual "anything goes" dumping day, and I was able to volunteer for this one. Snagged a lot of neat stuff before it got scrapped, including:

3x CRT televisions (including a Trinitron, all working)
A half dozen AXIS PTZ IP cameras
An IBM Model M keyboard
A pair of Motorola walkie talkies
A TP Link Archer A6 router NiB
A Macbook Air (A1932) with a busted screen
A working PS4 (no accessories though)
A NiB Onkyo 6 Disc CD changer
A top loading VCR

People with throw away *anything*, it's a real shame. But at least some of this will get used or passed on to folks who will use it!

#recycling #ewaste #upcycle #recycle #electronics

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Sluether @ Furality 🥽

@notthatdelta nice! I volunteered at a local e-waste recycling event once and was able to snag a few old laptops for a robotics group I was in at the time. The following year they changed the rules so nobody could keep anything though; everything had to go in the bins

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Delta Sierra 16h ago

@SuperSluether I might be the reason the rules change at this event next year :P

It's too bad they cut you out like that, but at least you were able to snag something! They actually have rules at this one regarding anything with a memory card/hard drive; I only got the Macbook Air on a technicality (I asked the donator directly if I could take it for personal use and he agreed to give it to *me*, not the event).

The event staff didn't care about the PS4, oddly enough.