[128825] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Recycling old cabling?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Gurtz)
Tue Aug 17 13:10:19 2010
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:09:53 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1008170717120.4584@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
From: "Jason Gurtz" <jasongurtz@npumail.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Just out of curiosity, is anyone here recycling old cabling and plant
> infrastructure for their raw materials, or engaging a recycler to =
handle
> those materials?
There are places that will pay for and recycle old telecom wire. About =
11
years ago I did some consulting work for a company that did just that,
usually buying old wire by the railroad car-load and shipping it to a
plant where it was chopped into little bits. The little bits then went
through a vibrating process, where metal went one way, insulation =
another.
Then the metal bits got sold via comex.
An article I found
<http://www.recyclingtoday.com/Article.aspx?article_id=3D19750> =
mentioned
that the front-end process was the toughest for the recyclers. I =
imagine,
as an operator, the best path would be to call around to various scrap
metal dealers and ask if one of these wire recyclers is in the area.
I have no idea about the feasibility of fiber recycling.
~JasonG
