We're pretty lucky in Minneapolis. You should be able to put out up to two TVs, monitors, printers, computers, whatever, each garbage day. Or maybe it's recycling day, I don't remember. It's best to put CRTs out as close to garbage/recycling pickup as possible, or scrappers will smash them apart all over your driveway to get the precious metals from the neck of the CRT. Check this out: http://www.ci.minneapolis.mn.us/solid-waste/what-to-do-A.asp -Steve On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > I don't think people want these two items, so I'll want to toss them out. > What's a good way to do that? I work at the U, so I could probably just > dump them off there somewhere -- they have to get rid of tons of old stuff > all the time. I remember we had a discussion once about how to get rid of > monitors, but I just noticed that a neighbor (here in Minneapolis) left a TV > out on recycling day and they put a note on it saying that they'd be back to > pick it up. Doesn't that mean that we can get put our monitors out on > recycling day and have them picked up? I would think so. Laser printers, > too? > > Mike > > > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Mike Miller wrote: > >> HP Laserjet 1200 series -- It is pretty nice, it definitely works well, >> and it's free, but it has one defect. It is not huge or heavy like the last >> one we heard about. It has a working cartridge but I don't know how much is >> left in it. The defect is that every time I start printing, the first three >> pages or so have a bunch of extra dry ink spewed onto them. I assume this >> has something to do with warming up. I tried printing extra pages with very >> little content to get warmed up, and that seems to help. I don't use it much >> and I just got a new wireless printer, so I'm giving this one away. It >> should be good for someone who prints infrequently and doesn't mind >> connecting it to the parallel port (I think that's the parallel port). >> After the first good page comes out, the rest are perfect. Also, it's >> free. Cable and power cord included. >> >> Sony Trinitron Multiscan 400PS -- this is a big old CRT. If you can use >> it, great. It's free. If no one can use this, does anyone know where I can >> get rid of it? In its day it was a great monitor. I retired it a few years >> ago and it has just been sitting around waiting to go somewhere else. >> >> Mike > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- If it ain't broke, you're not using a new enough version