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"Airy R. Bean" wrote in message ... This will become an increasing problem in Yerp when the WEE Waste directive takes hold - no company will be able to dispose of old electronic eqpt other than through a licensed waste operator, who must in his turn be able to show that he has passed it on to similarly licensed people. Scrap electronics will become a thing of the past for the enthusiast. This from a summary of the WEE: "The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) aims to minimise the impacts of electrical and electronic equipment on the environment during their life times and when they become waste. It applies to a huge spectrum of products. It encourages and sets criteria for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of waste electrical and electronic equipment. It makes producers responsible for financing most of these activities (producer responsibility). Private householders are to be able to return WEEE without charge." Sounds like they are concerned with the same mess we have here with computers and cells phones ending up in the dump. Other WEEE info indicated that they are mainly concerned with dangerous chemicles in batteries, etc. It does sound like the inspection process would drive up the price of everything. If they are trying to minimize the buildup of electronic waste as disposal sites they would probably encourge surplus dealers to take what they could sell. There is a limit to how much the dealers could pay for it. MH "David" wrote in message ... Alas, Houston has become a wasteland for electronics scrounging from what I've been able to tell. |
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