[sdiy] Major Score in the Dumpster at work!

[Rainer Buchty]

> Where I live, the local university auctions old equipment to the public. The
> local state government does the same. Why don't companies, and more
> universities, do this sort of thing?

At our university outdated equipment has first to be announced internally
so that chairs with lesser money can afford at least that stuff. Since
equipment usually is declared to be outdated when really nobody has any
use for it anymore - but the protocol dictates that the announcement/offer
has to be valid for a certain, ridiculously long time - it finally ends
with the stuff being thrown away.

*Then* it ends in well known baskets in the basement where the recycling
company often complains that all they get is metal casing and
depopulated PCBs cause everything else has been recycled already by
students :)

Rainer

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Rainer Buchty, LRR, Technical University of Munich
Phone: +49 89 289-28401, Fax +49 89 289-28232, Room S3240