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Re: Recycling old cabling?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mikael Abrahamsson)
Wed Aug 18 02:45:23 2010

Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:45:15 +0200 (CEST)
From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <1885992790-1282113493-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1687831139-@bda903.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>
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On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, khatfield@socllc.net wrote:

> More companies recycle and properly dispose of equipment than they did 
> ten years ago. Yet, if they aren't being looked at to be "green" or 
> something along those lines then many choose the cheapest route (the 
> dumpster).

The amazing thing is sometimes they will pay to have it trashed instead of 
the option of a recycler/reseller coming around and picking it up at no 
cost.

As you said, it's just one of those things.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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