[frgeek-michiana] Re: IDEM Indiana Department of Environmental Managment
- From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 13:56:04 -0500
Let's talk about it tonight at lab.
Tom
At 10:19 AM 5/22/03 -0500, you wrote:
>
> New updated information, Posted 5/13/03:
>
>
> <http://www.in.gov/idem/oppta/recycling/electronics/index.html>http://www.
> in.gov/idem/oppta/recycling/electronics/index.html
>
> We may want to start getting ready to write some grant applications.
>
> I have been thinking about the overall plan, and we need good relations with
> a recycling company or two.
> We also might want to consider breaking the recyclables down to
> plastic/aluminum/steel and see if we can find someone who will pay us $$$
for
> it.
> The problem is this creates a lot of work and I do not see a lot of
> volunteers knocking on our doors.
>
> Of course we really can't do anything until we have an agreement with
> Portland Free Geek, or we get a temporary 501c3.
>
> I am working on a policy for electronics disposal policy here at Goodwill,
> and I may need to talk to Tom and who ever else would like to sit in about
> how we can make it easy for Goodwill and other companies to give
> computer equipment to Free Geek. The problem people/non-profit/companies
want
> to cherry pick the pile of computers and leave the rest for the entity to
> deal with. I think it would be highly possible to setup an agreement between
> Goodwill and Free Geek, but at this point Goodwill is looking to dispose
> of all the electronics. I went to free geek Portland site and I looked at
the
> suggested donation for equipment recycling, which would bring us revenue to
> pay for handling, but how do we handle a larger corporation and or
non-profit
> that has a boatload of computer equipment to dispose of. If it is a
suggested
> donation, then they are not required to pay it. I guess we need to have some
> idea how Free Geek Michiana is going to handle it so I can better massage my
> disposal policy to fit the needs of both companies.
>
>
> Jay Schlatter
>
> Manager Information Services
>
> <http://www.goodwill-ni.org/>Goodwill Industries of Michiana,
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>
> (574) 472-7383
>
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