Sunday November 1, 2009, 8:39 pm
Thank you Katie.

Monday November 2, 2009, 3:58 am
Conspicuous consumption is perhaps the defining sin of America sadly imported in to UK, Must have gadgets for the elctroncally afflicted or should that be addicted. Tony Blair once espoused the idea of the Information Superhighway polluting every home in the UK! Just as in the fable of the Kings new clothes leaving him naked as the result of a con trick, so all of us are daily conned with the "need" to be connected even if that connection is wireless which of course is very old word for steam radio! Thinks folks we actually don't need the latest all singing and dancing, bells and whistles peice of over priced junk because like it or not your old model probably does it just as well with one less bell or whistles A good example is my old computer dating from the early 90s boots up quicker and can have me typing a report letter or whatever in far less time than it takes for the all sing and dancing model to boot up and talk to its many networks and hangers on! So this is progress, give me strength all I wanted was more storage capacity the speed of the appications and processors etc are an irrelevance if you can't start the thing in an instant. On off switches sem to have been phased out of consumer electronics and I'm not sure whether this is a cost cutting exercise or a cunning plan to sell us more gadgets to"save" us energy or ensure the energy companies increase their profits. Dial up phones with mechanical dials have only disappeard because too many people want phones therefore the numbers have gotten astromonical and the danger of speed diallers finger on such phones rendered their use obsolescent! Oh the joy of my time in the tv business when all you got in the morning was a tone and a testcard or that lovely background music! Then there was my short sojourn in office eguipment when computers had airconditioned luxury whilst the workers slaved outside it's domain in sweltering heat on mechanical typewriters whose melodious clatter was a joy to behold amidst the new fangled fax machines and photocopiers that nowadays we would severe withdrawal symptoms if they were taken away from us. Oh what joy what charming rapture to hear a mechanical telephone exchange in full symphonic sound byte! all those clicking selectors hunting for a non busy line! The joy of crossed lines when you could accidentally evesdrop on someone elses woes, simple pleasures with out a fee nowadays government employ so many snoopers I feel like preceeding my call in the manner of an MC at the Mansion House Banquet My Lords, Ladies, Gentleman of the press and members of the security services, nosey neighbours and any who happen to be listening in! So why don't they recycle this junk mountain answer is simple the probability is that most of it is in good working order and to do so would negate the need to make us spend more on stuff we don't actually need but simply desire! And of course it would damage their bottom line. Here endeth the lesson!

Monday November 2, 2009, 4:54 am
I was under the impression that America had a good recycling program going.

Monday November 2, 2009, 8:55 am
Thannxxx... perhaps a middle man should come into business here and make this is a worthwhile business recycling the various odd and ends... someone with flair and good business sense could make a lot of money out of another man's garbage?

Monday November 2, 2009, 9:30 am
I know that in my town, we need to obtain special permits and pay a fee to dispose of any e-waste at the town dump. This is a fairly recent addition, but the process to recycle is so cumbersome that I'm sure many lazy citizens will just opt to hide old electronics in their trash. Maybe having an e-waste recycling party would be a good way to get your community on board. Then only 1 person would get the permit and everyone could chip in for the fee. Here's some more information I came across that shows the terrible things that e-waste does to our ocean and sea life: http://tinyurl.com/yga28wv

Monday November 2, 2009, 9:35 am
I wish we had an e-waste recycling plant.

Monday November 2, 2009, 9:46 am
Recycling should be mandatory for everything. I do not understand why we wait until it is to late to do anything, which is what will happen. Water restriction should be mandatory. Living this way is harder but you get used to it. It is either do this or we all die!

Monday November 2, 2009, 4:11 pm
Thank you Katie

Monday November 2, 2009, 7:46 pm
Noted, thanks !!

Tuesday November 3, 2009, 11:03 pm
I know everyone hates Canada because of the seal hunt,,,BUT guess where the metals came from for the GOLD, Silver, and bronze comes from to make the medals for the Olympics??? Every metal is in the scrap electronics and that is what our beautiful medals are made from,,,,,,RECYCLING AT IT'S BEST!!!

Wednesday November 4, 2009, 6:25 am
One mans junk is another man's gold! Quite literally it would seem! lol I shall still continue to eye each skip I passto see if there is anything usable in them. My brother has talent for spotting decent washing machines and driers at the council tip and if they are not working he either returns them or takes another for the parts needed and then ruturns the cannibalised machine now that's what I call recycle mania! I'm only waiting on putting a tow bar on my new car so I can sell a trailer load of scrap metal and get rid of some rubbish and beleive ypu me anything I throw away is definitely unrecyclable!