[LINK] 1.6m computers into landfill, 1.8 into storage

[Adam Todd]

At 05:34 PM 12/11/2006, Kim Holburn wrote:
>Gee, I took a really old Computer and a Mac SE/30 to the tip
>yesterday (Aussie Junk at Mitchell in Canberra) and I had to pay $15
>for the "cpu" and $20 for the "monitor" - the SE/30 qualified as a
>monitor.

Yep the local tip wants to charge me $99 per boot.

>I'd reckon it'd be a lot cheaper to put them in your wheelie bin one
>by one than to take them to the dump at the moment.

Yep, that's what I've been doing for months.  Bit by bit, returning 
everything to whence it came.