Hey, lizzard from Noisebridge here, just to say that no, we also have a fairly horrible e-waste problem and not enough people are helping with it. I want to get rid of the giant e-waste bin that we have because it fills up, overflows, no one but me has dealt with it for months and we have like shelves and shelves and giant piles of increasingly unloved broken stuff.
I have been putting some of it out on the curb and paying junk haulers to take it to e-waste. Trash warriors has been very helpful and seems like a good company for this.
But too much of it, we keep because someone thinks it may be an interesting project for someone someday or have some value or they hate to think of the waste. But it's so much work to move it out. And every time I do someone is upset about some part of it.
I'm just here to support being a little harsher on hoarding behaviors because I believe we need to clear space --- physically and mentally --- for new people and ideas and projects. We won't find out what those new things will be, if the space is overdetermined into a giant nostalgia pile. Make room for making!!!
Maybe there's also a place in our world for a giant warehouse full of weird electronic scrap!!! Like urban ore but for hacker space folks. But that isn't what I want the primary purpose of noisebridge to be....
My 2 cents.
Lizzard