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

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> It would almost be cheaper for you to travel down here and pay our tip 
> fees.

Didn't a Victorian Country town object to being the rubbish tip for 
Melbourne?

> 
> Adam Todd wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
>>
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