angiescarr

Hi I wonder if anyone can give me advice on getting rid of a broken laser printer? Surely you don't just dump them by the bins??

mikelincs

That's what I would do, they usua;lly don't stay there long as the recyclers are looking for stuff like that..

siesta

Your ayuntamiento should have a "punto limpio" which is a place to leave stuff like that.

reggiedh

Take it to your local eco-park; they will take it off your hands.

lovethesun

I put my broken printer at the side of Basura, with a note attached saying, it is broken, if you want to try and repair, take it. It was gone within 30 minutes

angiescarr

Ahh I'll ask about. Maybe the local policeman will know.
Cheers.
Angie

Fred James

I remember reading somewhere that if you cut off the plug it means it doesn't work - if you leave it on it means it works.

Seems like a good idea - has anyone else come across this?

lyric030250

That seems to be the convention round here (Nerja area) also Fred, the little man that lives in the bins leaves it if no plug, mostly.
He still takes it if it's shiny !

megmet

Anything like that we take to our local 'punto limpio' where the man on the gate sorts out anything he might be able to sell on.....
Last week he made sure our copper piping didn't go in the recycling container there.

Alpujarra

If you do a search for "punto limpio mytown_or_province" you should come up with a list of venues set up for the purpose of re-cycling of electrical equipement

betris

lob it in the bin.next to the bin.in the river.where ever. does it realy mater as long as its gone

bil

You throw away copper piping? It's far too valuable a material to do that with. When I want copper strip, I just take a length of tube, cut it lengthways once, heat it with a blowlamp to soften it and then hammer it out.

Plus if you are into artistic, I have seen some amazing stuff done with old copper pipe and then giving it a verdigris treatment to colour it green.

megmet

You should have seen the amount of copper and brass that we took to the scrapyard in England before we moved here.....the price we got was hardly worth the journey!

jdr

4800 quid a ton now.

bil

Who'da thunk it?