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Does the whole world have "Hard Rubbish" or just Australia
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ChadTower:

Well, once you parse out all of the recyclables properly, we throw out less than one full bag of trash per week.  And we're a family of four with two small kids.
Level42:
It would be really cool to find a cab between that Hard Rubbish.

I guess it's because we are such a little country, but here, people have to drive up to the town's "gemeentewerf" where you can dump all your stuff, from garden waiste, to "I just renovated my home" rubbish, batteries and other chemical waiste. All in "home" amounts of course, if they think you're a company you have to pay.
I normaly never have to pay anything, it's allready inlcuded in my local taxes I guess (it should, they're high enough !!).

My brother in law works at one and you would be amazed at what he comes home with some times. My kid has a mini-car that came from there. I have instructed him to look for arcade games and pins of course......so far no luck...

We also call "Whitegoods" exactly the same: Witgoed
There's also Bruingoed = Browngoods. They mean TV's,Stereo's, videos etc. with that.
ChadTower:

Yep, we don't have a dump.  If we didn't use our town pick-up there would be no place to bring our trash.  There is a town depot where we can bring stuff like batteries, comptuers, tvs, etc, but we also have to pay there.  Yard waste can be brought there free but they make you unbag it and look at it to make sure it fits some pretty narrow parameters.

The town depot is a good place to pick up old computers.  They usually let me take them free, not allowed to open them, but anything relatively recent is in that common "one bad part" state.
horseboy:
Someone mentioned about a month ago that they found an original Pong cocktail in someone's hard rubbish years back. He also mentioned that when he went away to college his mom threw it away. I am not sure if he laid a beating on her or not.  :dunno

Personally I have snagged a few of those old console TV's to turn into fish tanks. I only ever got around to doing one, though. You wouldn't believe how many pizza dudes said "Is that a real fishtank? That is ---smurfing--- sweet."

On a side note. I think I saw a movie called Hard Rubbish once, but don't tell my wife about it.
ChadTower:

So he got it from hard rubbish and they put it back into the hard rubbish.  Sad but the circle is complete.

How did you convert the front of the tank?  I have always wanted to do that but was never sure if I would cut the front of the CRT off for a real curved glass or just use a flat tempered piece.
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