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Recycling old cabling?
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner () cluebyfour org>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 07:29:50 -0400 (EDT)
Just out of curiosity, is anyone here recycling old cabling and plant infrastructure for their raw materials, or engaging a recycler to handle those materials? Where I work, there is almost always a renovation project going on. This provides opportunities to rip out Cat3/Cat5/long-abandoned thicknet/thinnet/FDDI-grade fiber/etc, which we normally do. Most of the time that old cabling ends up in the dumpster, but I'm wondering if anyone is recycling it, either by their choice, or as the result of company policy or relevant laws in your area?
Cat3/Cat5 can be broken down to raw materials with some effort, but I haven't seen many recyclers with an economically viable process for doing it. Coax is a bit tougher, but not impossible (same questions about economic viability still apply). Fiber can be tough, expecially if you're dealing with something like 20+ year old gel-buffered cable where the has long-since dried out.
I'd be interested to hear other peoples' experiences along these lines. jms
Current thread:
- Recycling old cabling? Justin M. Streiner (Aug 17)
- RE: Recycling old cabling? Jason Gurtz (Aug 17)
- Re: Recycling old cabling? Brielle Bruns (Aug 17)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Recycling old cabling? Frank A. Coluccio (Aug 17)
- Re: Recycling old cabling? Jeffrey Lyon (Aug 17)
- Re: Recycling old cabling? khatfield (Aug 17)
- Re: Recycling old cabling? Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 17)
- Re: Recycling old cabling? Patrik Wallstrom (Aug 19)
- RE: Recycling old cabling? Adcock, Matt [HISNA] (Aug 30)
- Re: Recycling old cabling? Jeffrey Lyon (Aug 17)
- Re: Recycling old cabling? Ricky Beam (Aug 18)