[Greenbuilding] Give Me Your Old, Your Tired, Your Stinky and Energy Inefficient....

[Erin Rasmussen]

In my area, there's no good place to take your old fridge, so I'm glad that the local renewable agency will come and pick them up at low or no cost. They take the oldest fridges, and ones that are in poor working order,  to make sure that the innards are properly reused or recycled. 

I've always lived in urban areas and had my share or ignorant neighbors doing stupid stuff with old appliances. I'm glad there are the fridge guys. I'm also fond of the guys who come around in and old pickup and are willing to break down old stoves etc for the scrap metal. 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Reuben Deumling" [9watts at gmail.com]
Date: 08/10/2012 10:28 AM
To: "Green Building" <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Give Me Your Old, Your Tired,
 Your Stinky and Energy Inefficient....

This is an aside, but since Ive accompanied many a crew picking these fridges up, there is zero incentive *not* to pick up the fridge, working on not, once the pickup has been scheduled and the trip made. When I toured ARCAs facility in Compton, CA, there was even a gas-powered fridge mixed in with the lot of picked up fridges. The ten cubic foot minimum size requirement that is pretty common to these pick up programs is also rarely if ever enforced.