Comments on: what i meant by yesterday’s thing https://myrobotispregnant.com/2010/03/24/3613/ tough guy poetry and manly stories of loneliness Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:01:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Belcat https://myrobotispregnant.com/2010/03/24/3613/comment-page-1/#comment-19897 Belcat Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:05:57 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/2010/03/24/3613/#comment-19897 Speaking of greening though, as a hauler you have the unique ability of taking the time to sort through some of the trash and send it to the right place. IE, maybe there is a plastic recycle around there? - Metals are always valuable and reusable, so stripping them from stuff is very green, and may make more cash (than the effort of doing it). Particle boards is pretty useless, maybe it could be burned for electricity/heat, but I can't think of much else to do with it. It is already a recycled product though, leftovers from a cutting saw that before was just junked. Try googling "particle board reuse", maybe something will appeal to you. Particle board is a victim to a society that doesn't want to pay the cost of real wood, and to cherish and keep it like a heirloom (ok, a bit of an exaggeration), but rather just buy and throw out. Best solution? Don't buy it, look for real wood, or make it yourself. Speaking of greening though, as a hauler you have the unique ability of taking the time to sort through some of the trash and send it to the right place.
IE, maybe there is a plastic recycle around there?
- Metals are always valuable and reusable, so stripping them from stuff is very green, and may make more cash (than the effort of doing it).
Particle boards is pretty useless, maybe it could be burned for electricity/heat, but I can’t think of much else to do with it. It is already a recycled product though, leftovers from a cutting saw that before was just junked. Try googling “particle board reuse”, maybe something will appeal to you.

Particle board is a victim to a society that doesn’t want to pay the cost of real wood, and to cherish and keep it like a heirloom (ok, a bit of an exaggeration), but rather just buy and throw out. Best solution? Don’t buy it, look for real wood, or make it yourself.

]]> By: Belcat https://myrobotispregnant.com/2010/03/24/3613/comment-page-1/#comment-19895 Belcat Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:54:50 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/2010/03/24/3613/#comment-19895 I hate how you can't get parts for anything to fix a lot of things. If you want an exception to the rule, look up Roomba, the robotic vacuum. You can get parts for anything that might be broken inside it (from other sites mind you, not the manufacturer's site). If you're not a tinkerer, they offer you a different solution: you pay a fraction of the price of a new one, send in your old broken one, and they send you a new one (latest model, too, at least when I asked). Judging from the amount of refurbished Roombas out there, I suspect they change whatever is broken and sell it again. Why aren't all products made like that?! I hate how you can’t get parts for anything to fix a lot of things. If you want an exception to the rule, look up Roomba, the robotic vacuum. You can get parts for anything that might be broken inside it (from other sites mind you, not the manufacturer’s site).
If you’re not a tinkerer, they offer you a different solution: you pay a fraction of the price of a new one, send in your old broken one, and they send you a new one (latest model, too, at least when I asked). Judging from the amount of refurbished Roombas out there, I suspect they change whatever is broken and sell it again.

Why aren’t all products made like that?!

]]> By: Lyle_S https://myrobotispregnant.com/2010/03/24/3613/comment-page-1/#comment-19891 Lyle_S Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:41:13 +0000 http://myrobotispregnant.com/2010/03/24/3613/#comment-19891 Looking forward to tomorrow when you explain what this thing meant. Looking forward to tomorrow when you explain what this thing meant.

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