Re: the power of junk, Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?

On 5/23/2025 8:17 AM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:

On Fri, 23 May 2025 14:21:57 +0000, John Levine wrote:
 

According to Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net>:

Don’t you have regulations, or at least discouragements, against e- waste
going to landfill?

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Yes, in the last two decades.   A quarter century ago, not so much.

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This is 'Murica, pretty much everything goes in the trash here...

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Nonsense.

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It's sort of true. In my town they pick up paper and containers and yard
waste
at the curb but I have to take electronics down to the recycling dump.
Most
people don't bother.

 In Austin we have recycling, but at the sorting department, recycled
glass is diverted straight to the garbage dump.

Interesting.  I thought glass was supposed to be the easiest thing to recycle. Perhaps separate clear from colored, then just melt it down and reuse.
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