James Burgett runs the Alameda County Computer Resource Center which takes computers destined to become landfill and installs Linux on them and then gives them out to schools, non-profits, and poor people. CNN calls him a hero, but a local government inspector from the DTSC wants to shut him down.
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I think it’s a shame that our bureaucracies have become so rote and dehumanized that our officials follow the letter of the law instead of looking at the circumstances behind the infraction.
We don’t have enough people that take things like furniture, technology, etc and prepare them for reuse so that we don’t have a super-accumulation of waste…and if this is the thanks they get, not to mention the public perception of pack rats or “dumpster-divers”, it’s small wonder that we have as many as we do.
We need to change the focus of our consumer-driven economy from production to post-production and reuse. We as a society are creating a debt against posterity and the planet that our next generations may find hard to pay.