Raising money by collecting mobile telephone? How?

[terryc]

How can you raise money by collecting mobile telephones?
According to a post in a re-useit list, some school is doing it.
I'm intrigued about the economics of collectng toxic waste, particularly
as the list posteris offering to drive over a fair proportion of Sydney
to collect them.

Or should I just report the poster to the shadowy guys as a terrorist
collecting materials for remote detonation devices? {.

 

[kreed]

On Oct 14, 8:22 am, terryc <newssixspam-s...@woa.com.au> wrote:

How can you raise money by collecting mobile telephones?
According to a post in a re-useit list, some school is doing it.
I'm intrigued about the economics of collectng toxic waste, particularly
as the list posteris offering to drive over a fair proportion of Sydney
to collect them.

Or should I just report the poster to the shadowy guys as a terrorist
collecting materials for remote detonation devices? {.

I guess if it "sounds green" or like "recycling"
everyone will crawl all over it, Similar to the CFL "scam"

Maybe they will ride bicycles/walk all over sydney to collect them

Even that will still result in them ultimately eating more food to
provide the human power
and more "greenhouse gas" will be "emitted" in the process. You cant
win

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What they might want to to is extract the gold from the electronics -
that might
be more worthwhile with the current prices. How much you would get per
phone
is another matter

 

[Cosmic Ray]

"terryc" <newssixspam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote in message
newsan.2008.10.13.22.22.14.397103@woa.com.au...

How can you raise money by collecting mobile telephones?
According to a post in a re-useit list, some school is doing it.
I'm intrigued about the economics of collectng toxic waste, particularly
as the list posteris offering to drive over a fair proportion of Sydney
to collect them.

Or should I just report the poster to the shadowy guys as a terrorist
collecting materials for remote detonation devices? {.

A little OT, this link has WEEE scrap prices in Europe, some to component
level, interesting for a look.

http://euro.recycle.net/a/3020.html?affilid=100000

our kids school collected some mobiles for kindy/preschool play props. Most
of the phones are better than mine....