On 4/6/07, Jim <arizona.anorak@gmail.com> wrote:

vodhner@cox.net wrote:
> I asked a guy at Data Doctors about AzSTRUT, which accepts
> any kind of old electronics. He said STRUT has someone who
> really does "the right thing" with the waste stuff. I didn't pursue
> it, but he sounded really sure that that was part of STRUT's
> mission and they took it seriously.

I read someplace that there's enough gold in a computer that some
companies are "mining" old computer parts.

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You might want to look at http://www.azstrut.org for some information. There is no good information there about what is done with hardware which is no longer reusable and I have sent an email to Ken about that. In fact, they send stuff the program cannot use to West-Tech for proper recycling and West-Tech pays AZStRUT for it so even junk is useful to the program.

Yes, there are companies that mine metals, such as gold, from old electronic parts and I am sure West-Tech does that. It is what makes green recycling profitable. In this case, some of that pays a small part of the cost of operating AZStRUT. But I don't think that is the kind of mining you were referring to.

"That income tax you know it's nothing more than legal robbery"
Sidney "Pa" Larkin
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