Quote Originally Posted by majex45 View Post
Our local tip (Waste Transfer Stataion) cannot (will not?) sell anything with a plug on it. They can sell speakers but not the associated amp, cd, tuner or turntable.
So don't take anything electrical to the tip unless you want it to be ground up and sent to India for metals reclamation/landfill.
They also will not allow me to take a CD player apart for the laser mechanism, they class this as "processing" and this is not allowed.
I suppose they would be liable if they let people take electrical goods and they were faulty?

No reason why they won't let you cannibalise stuff though, just the usual pointless beaurocracy.

Used to know someone who worked at the tip, unofficially they can take what they want. One time he got a Marshall practice amp, full working order, not a mark on it. Why someone would dump that I've no idea.