Help scrounging in England

[Simon Fryer]

All,

On 9/19/05, Tom Jennings <tomj at wps.com> wrote: 
> 
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately the UK doesn't seem to have the equivalent of US
> > salvage/surplus places :-(
> 
> WHAT!? How in HELL do you get through a week?! Where does it all go?
> 
 Alcohol helps the week pass! *hic*!
 The EC do a good job of making sure that equipment can't just be dumped. 
Many large organisations appear to have disposal contracts. :( I am assuming 
a lot is broken down and recycled. 
 I find the local Linux user groups are a good source of hardware, and 
contacts who know about useful sources of hardware. 
Simon

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