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font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> ale-bounces@ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org]
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bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Charles Shapiro<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 05, 2011 3:03 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ale] Off Topic, hard drive shredder</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Argh. I realize all too well that flourescents are hazardous waste. The problemo is that there is no simple way for a private individual
to get rid of them legally.<br>
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12.0pt">On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 11:42 AM, planas <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 09:35 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">On 8/5/11 12:47 AM, Sparr wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> I've recently come into possession of a large security disintegrator,<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> designed for shredding things like hard drives and tapes and such. I'm<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> trying to figure out what to do with it. Selling it is, of course, an<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> option, but I was thinking of possibly starting up a small security<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> business to destroy hard drives for people. Is there a market for that<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">> in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:place></st1:City>?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">It would make a big difference if your apparatus of mindless destruction <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">were mobile. But you are going to have a waste stream like nobody's <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">business; some of that will be leaded solder, which is toxic. One thing <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">you could certainly do without too much difficulty would be to separate <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">out the ground-up magnets; run the refuse past a piece of iron that gets <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">scraped off periodically. I don't know what all the composition of disk <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">drive magnets would be in the field - I'd suspect samarium cobalt and <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">neodymium. What you recover could potentially be press-formed into <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">fairly decent magnets, suitable for electricity generation, but as far <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">as actually separating out the metals into bulk material with a net <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">positive value, I dunno.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Possessing this device only makes sense if it's actively being used, so, <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
<pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">congratulations on having entered the waste processing business! :)<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Once you grind up the hard drive you could attempt to recover the metals present using a combination of physical and chemical methods. The
metals should be a reasonable purity to sell .<br>
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If limited metal recovery is done you probably will have D- series (unless the EPA has a specific classification) hazardous waste. I do not know the current prices for hazardous waste disposal. But when I was handling waste disposal I found there was roughly
a 10x difference between the charges of non-hazardous waste and a hazardous waste.<br>
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Off topic stupidity, most people do not realize that fluorescent lights should be disposed as a hazardous waste - mercury is the culprit.<font color="#888888"><span style="color:#888888"><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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