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Post by Bonobo on Dec 31, 2015 17:14:10 GMT 1
Do you remember? Our new TV. The old one went to the basement. I felt uneasy about throwing away a good friend....  Our TV broke down. The service man said the main electronic unit is kaputt. No sense in repairing it. I temporarily put it in the basement It happened during Christmas. Funny. Instead I brought the small black and white TV which we had used before. Of course it doesn`t work with cable. But we had fun anyway. Grandpa was especially annoyed at the broken TV so we told him to use the power of imagination when looking at the dead screen of the replacement.  polandsite.proboards.com/post/30079 |
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Post by jeanne on Dec 31, 2015 23:07:16 GMT 1
Our big old-fashioned TV which we had for years also broke recently...over our Thanksgiving holiday at the end of November! So we were forced to upgrade to a new flat screen. I don't watch TV, so it doesn't matter to me, but I appreciate the new stream-lined TV which doesn't take up as much room!
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Post by jeanne on Dec 31, 2015 23:15:53 GMT 1
By the way...can you just "throw away" TVs in Poland? Where I live we have to take them to electronic recycling and it costs money to do so! (Then I think most of the electronic waste just gets sent to Asia and dumped there...a travesty!  ) |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 31, 2015 23:28:03 GMT 1
Our big old-fashioned TV which we had for years also broke recently...over our Thanksgiving holiday at the end of November! So we were forced to upgrade to a new flat screen. I don't watch TV, so it doesn't matter to me, but I appreciate the new stream-lined TV which doesn't take up as much room! I don`t watch either but kids like cable cartoons so I bought a new one after Christmas. It is so amazingly light. |
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Post by Bonobo on Dec 31, 2015 23:29:35 GMT 1
By the way...can you just "throw away" TVs in Poland? Where I live we have to take them to electronic recycling and it costs money to do so! (Then I think most of the electronic waste just gets sent to Asia and dumped there...a travesty! ) No, you can`t. It must be taken by special waste collectors on designed days or you must personally take to the recycling center. |
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Post by jeanne on Jan 1, 2016 2:20:02 GMT 1
By the way...can you just "throw away" TVs in Poland? Where I live we have to take them to electronic recycling and it costs money to do so! (Then I think most of the electronic waste just gets sent to Asia and dumped there...a travesty! ) No, you can`t. It must be taken by special waste collectors on designed days or you must personally take to the recycling center. Yes, that's what we must do too. But have you read about the e-waste problem in China? We watched this video with our students in school. They (and we) were shocked by it: |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 1, 2016 11:00:00 GMT 1
But have you read about the e-waste problem in China? We watched this video with our students in school. They (and we) were shocked by it: Yes, shocking. All this horrenduos toxic pollution takes place so that they can make 1.5$ a day. I will also show this video to my students. I will try to explain that excessive consummerism is harmful for this planet. Some of my students are obsessed with newest technologies, I can see it by their new smartphones and other gadgets. I have been still using my old PC which I bought in 2008. The only upgrade I did was a new graphic card when the old had broken down. Yes, my kids have a newer PC bought last year but their old one was transferred to the farmhouse and is used there in summer. I have also had the same mobile for 5-6 years now. |
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Post by Bonobo on Jan 1, 2016 11:02:36 GMT 1
I also read a few comments under another video about recycling in India:
Derek Sipila
That is a great video. I am in the USA. I take apart electronics for metal recycling. Everyone it seems frowns upon it and I am always in violation of code. It is totally different here. People throw away everything and they have no idea why I take things apart. Trying to make a junkpile look nice is like putting lipstick on a pig. I am forced to bring one item out at a time and junk it and store the metals in the basement. As for the abs and hips plastic. No one around here wants it. I sometimes question why I live in this type of low moral society.
dream loop
I remember in the 50s and 60s suburban Detroit there were people who came door to door and collected things like metal and rubber and appliances. Also there were door to door people who fixed things or sharpened knifes and such: tinkers they were called. There were paper and clothing drives at the churches. Text books were always bought second hand in my house. During WWII even food grease was collected for the war effort my Mom told me. Beer and soda bottles were always returned in the heavy cardboard flip top boxes that they came in, when buying again... What happened to us ? If India wants to keep hold of this tradition, then they must value it for many good reasons and pass the practice on with pride. Most important, value those middle to low level dealers who collect it from the source.
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