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Re: Recycling old cabling?
From: Brielle Bruns <bruns () 2mbit com>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:16:05 -0600
On 8/17/10 5:29 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
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?
Stripping out wiring and recycling it around here is actually a fairly good business - with buildings and offices changing hands from one major player to another, the new owner usually wants to gut the entire inside of the building and redo it their way. Given that Boise was once a pretty nice place to be for tech companies, and the downturn of the economy, the past two years has seen a spike in the recycling side of things.
-- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org / http://www.ahbl.org
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)