yipee free trash pickup day

Evan · May 13, 2004

well today is the free trash pickup day in my part of my town... so tonight i will be going out looking for some computer stuff to do some modding too.... yestarday we found more monitors to count along with several old comps which are being torn appart as we speak. today hopefully ill find soemthing decent to use as a mp3 server.

Smirabi · May 13, 2004

what? what is this day? what happens?

orthus · May 13, 2004

If it's like my community, the normal trash collection is limited as to what can be disposed of. So every so often the city has days assigned where they will come by and collect anything that you have to dispose of. It's like a Junkfest. People will put out anything. You get the usual items like old couches, stoves, etc. You can go down the alleys and pick up nearly anything before the city gets it.

It's great for cooling parts. Over the past few years, I've picked up maybe 2 dozen or so compressors from fridges and about a dozen tossed a/c units. The companies downtown also paticipate and I've picked up whole computers from them. Most of it is junk, but you get a gem evey now and then.

Evan · May 13, 2004

orthus said:
If it's like my community, the normal trash collection is limited as to what can be disposed of. So every so often the city has days assigned where they will come by and collect anything that you have to dispose of. It's like a Junkfest. People will put out anything. You get the usual items like old couches, stoves, etc. You can go down the alleys and pick up nearly anything before the city gets it.

It's great for cooling parts. Over the past few years, I've picked up maybe 2 dozen or so compressors from fridges and about a dozen tossed a/c units. The companies downtown also paticipate and I've picked up whole computers from them. Most of it is junk, but you get a gem evey now and then.

exactally.... basically spring cleaning where everyone throws out the stuff that they have been wanting to throw away but no pay extra.My town is like 40000+ people so the have trash pick up throughout the week, my part of town is tonight hopefully i can get soem hds or some cd burners or something.

You would be amazed at the size of theese piles..... and the size of the trucks that the "minorities" use to pick up the scrap metal and sell it by the pound

Smirabi · May 13, 2004

uhh, sounds like a lot of very legal fun. why is "minorities" in quotes? are they somehow not actual minorities? anyway, i wonder if that kind of thing happens in new orleans... that would be sweet.

Xenocide · May 13, 2004

we had something like that when i lived in metarie, right outside of new orleans

Smirabi · May 14, 2004

Xenocide, do you remember what time of year? spring, summer? or how to find out? man, your avatar is disturbing

shard · May 14, 2004

Evan said:
You would be amazed at the size of theese piles..... and the size of the trucks that the "minorities" use to pick up the scrap metal and sell it by the pound

I think he is talking about the Hispanics. No offence to any here!

syberspy9 · May 14, 2004

wish my town did that i have to go to the dump and slip the guy a 10$ bill then i load the truck up and he lets me roll out

i have some sweat junk my school junks (P3 xeon server o ya like 6 hd in that baby runs as my house server (movies mp3's ect)

tgxiii · May 14, 2004

You would be surprised to see what people throw out. Guess the old saying is true: one man's trash is another man's treasure.

syberspy9 · May 14, 2004

i hear that i hear that amen amen

tbones1337 · May 14, 2004

@ school.. if i could get it.. a dual 300 slot 1 p2. With USB, SCSI, IDE, we have a case for it thats like 7 bays for HD's...

SRUT (Students Recycling Used Tech. ) is the program its participating in, its also a class at my school.. if i can take that dualie home... that would kick ***.

OKJEFF4 · May 14, 2004

This should be in GCRD.

But anyway, I get tons of stuff from school. 20gb HDs, a dual WAN hotbrick, CD drives, cases... Ish like that.

Xenocide · May 14, 2004

Smirabi: i think it was late spring, not sure though

Smirabi · May 14, 2004

cool, i looked on NOLA's official website, but couldn't find any information, no surprise there. this day sounds like a great big fun thing, i hope i find out when it happens. so far all i've been able to scavenge from the roadside is only heatsink parts and non-working monitors... maybe some day i'll find something good...

Shade00 · May 14, 2004

Lol, at least you have a big enough city there to have real trash collection.

I doubt Ruston even has a trash collector...

Evan · May 14, 2004

nothing good... it was raining really hard the whole time it sucked

Smirabi · May 15, 2004

was it last night/this morning?

qualhiveldorf · May 15, 2004

Dag nab it ! I asked my mom when it is around here , and they just had it a month or so ago!!!! AGH!!! oh well, Good luck!

Bashar · May 15, 2004

orthus said:
It's great for cooling parts. Over the past few years, I've picked up maybe 2 dozen or so compressors from fridges and about a dozen tossed a/c units.

What do you do with 2 dozen compressors and a dozen tossed A/C units?

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