I agree with adam and have the following suggestions:
- the dedicated e-waste container should be situated on a pallet capable of being easily moved by the sudo’s pallet jack. The container should be relatively durable, ie iat least of the double-walled cardboard made to cart around dirt.
- when it is full, we agree to offer a bounty on the sudo list ($25/hr?) for removal to CTRC, or for example arrange for Lukas (with his lift gate truck) to dispose for a set fee.
- for when there are really big loads: The Computer & Technology Resource Center (
ewastecollective.org) are pretty dedicated toward re-use. For pickup outside of berkeley, usually it’s $100/trip (though disposal at their location is usually free). However once they checked out omni - as I had multiple 10-yard pallets to move out of omni recently - they said they’d consider doing it for free next time given our mission and since we’re pretty close to berkeley. So, we might hit them back up on that.
- I do think the most important near-term task is going through all of sudo’s stuff and culling it to kind of ‘get back to zero’, and so future e-waste runs will be easier and more modest in scope. I’m happy to assist with that but I’d need someone more in touch with active projects at sudo to safely do that with. (I feel like the mesh cage might be a good place to start, at least getting it a bit tidier?)
My 2c
David
I think we should post prominently in the space a sign requiring
dropoffs to get pre-approval through the donations@lists.sudoroom.org
list - or at list a description of acceptable vs unacceptable donations.
Re: e-waste pickup - this is a service freely available to us through
Omni's local recycling vendor, CiviCorps. At one point we'd had a list
of forms and description of process in the space, though I am guessing
this is no longer a visible thing. We need to inventory ewaste for
weekly pickups and scheduling via http://www.civicorpsrecycling.org/ewaste/
Thank you for all the work you've done on this to date, Joule, Jake &
others <3
Jenny
On 2/18/22 15:20, Jake via sudo-discuss wrote:
> I'm not in agreement that sudoroom's interaction with e-waste equals
> cancer,
> but I'm very sorry that you're having to deal with a skin tumor, i'm sure
> that's very stressful.
>
> As for the e-waste at sudoroom, I'm planning to do an e-waste run after a
> session of sorting with another sudoer, within the next two weeks.
>
> I did recently help fix and sell the fridge and earned sudoroom $210
> while
> clearing up some space. I have also been putting hours of work into
> sorting
> ewaste and moving things along and out of the space, every tuesday night.
>
> -jake
>
> On Fri, 18 Feb 2022, Yardena Cohen via sudo-discuss wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2022 at 2:55 PM Joule Munic via sudo-discuss
>> <sudo-discuss@sudoroom.org> wrote:
>>> I'm no longer strong enough to keep cleaning up, and some of the
>>> e-waste
>>> that shows up is genuinely dangerous, like a UV laser that appears
>>> to have
>>> given me vascular tumors.
>>>
>>> Appear benign, but, punching a hole in my genome has really kicked my
>>> survival instinct into high gear and I don't want anything to do with
>>> e-waste anymore.
>>
>> Holy shit, I'm so sorry. That is awful and I don't blame you for
>> stepping
>> back after something like that.
>>
>> Where is all this stuff coming from?
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