While I personally LOVE seeing large overstuffed pieces of furniture all over the city, and appreciate as only an Arizona native come home can, that this can only happen here in Arizona the land of the free, I often also do meditate about recycling and wonder how many of these erstwhile landfill intended pieces actually end up being carried off to some other needy person's home. 

There is always Craigslist.org for free stuff?

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz@acm.org> wrote:
When our microwave oven started making a funny noise,
my wife's decision was to just to out and buy a new one
(the price was reasonable; and the new one works OK).

Discussing the pro's and con's of that decision, would be
*even more* off topic. ((like "off" off-Broadway??))

Now, however, I have phoned the city I live in, and they have
told me that the right thing to do (if I want to just dispose of
the old one), is to put it out for the "once a month" pick-up
of "un-contained trash" that the city [Glendale] provides.

Too Bad:
As a side note: The person did divulge that no attempt at all
would be made (e.g. by the city) to recover the value of any 
"metal" that might be able to be recycled, or any other part 
of the erstwhile microwave oven. So the entire thing will go 
in to the landfill (unless I hear differently, within about 72
hours or so -- either on this thread or via an "off-list" e-mail 
message straight to me) (or via a phone call)  
(to find my home number:)
(see http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=first:"michael"+last:"schwartz"+city:"glendale"+state:"AZ"+&state=AZ&fr=php-phon )
(and, my middle initial = "L", and I live on Kristal Way).
(when I tried that, apparently the "AZ" has to be
UPPER CASE! How "case sensitive" is that??)

Alternatives? anyone?
Does anyone want this ["pre-owned"] microwave oven ?
I hesitate to guess whether or not it could be repaired.  
Some of the stuff it is "made of", might be recyclable
or usable for something.

I would be a little hesitant to see it going in to a landfill,
(well, not literally "see", but "cause" it, and know about it)
but, I only have a limited amount of effort earmarked to 
explore alternatives.

So, if you have any ideas, please respond within 
the next 3 days.

THANK YOU,
--
Mike Schwartz    
Glendale  AZ
schwartz@acm.org

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