Re: Donate your unneeded stuff! was - Re: [Avid-L2] Anyone need 2tb drives?

Great idea.  

Here in Los Angeles we have 'homeboy industries'  which is a sort of a halfway-house-first-employer/job skills training for ex-gangsters, ex-cons, and at-risk youth.  They run a bakery, they have a salsa company, a grocery store, a cafe, etc., and best of all, electronics recycling and e-waste.  When I closed my brick-and-mortar post house in 2018, any infrastructure I couldn't resell or donate to someone in one of the social media groups, went to their recycling operation.  Several SUVs worth!  

Refurbishing surplus computers for donation is a great idea, too!  

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeboy_Industries

I'm currently remodeling an old duplex, and the amount of landfill is embarrassing, even though I know all the LA trash companies recycle what they can.  

GH

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On Oct 21, 2021, at 18:14, Jo's Mailinglists via groups.io <lists=filter-media.net@groups.io> wrote:

 Hi all,

I'm jumping this for a totally off-list reason:

We are all working on 'puters and components that might have been ended their life from our perspective.

Well, we here (Austria, "old world") have an "NGO"  that is collecting "old" computers and parts, get them set-up by experienced (even retired by now) individuals, putting together _your_ left-over parts, configuring and setting up a new system. And they then just donate it to the people, which cannot afford any computer.

Wherever you are: you can set up the same, same big scale. Or at least: animate others to do the exact same thing!

I do not know about your individual communities, but: me, personally, I did rather give this group all I have before get it dumped, trash it, maybe even pay for disposal.

It's 2021, Avid still is sometime like Meridian - but here's the catch: you can change the future, at least help, enable other to do thus.

sry4justtelling you.

Best

Jo

Jochen "Jo" Hermann

filter Media Postproduction

Salzburg, Austria

On 21. Oct 2021, at 17:03, Secret HQ <Greg@secrethq.com> wrote:

I retired my Terrablock a few years ago, but kept the drives.  Turns out I have plenty of spinning media and really haven't found a use for them.  I'm pretty sure the drives are 2tb WD enterprise drives, so they're good drives, though very very likely out of warranty now.  Still, you know, free.  

 

I have a box of 20 looking for a new home, free to you if you take them all.  I'll even pay the UPS bill.  I hate making landfill when it can be avoided.

 

gh

 

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