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PSA: The amount of old cable we dump is killing our rep for no good reason
I see crews every day pulling out perfectly good copper wire and just trashing it with the rest of the job waste. We could be scrapping that metal for cash and helping the planet, but everyone acts like it's too much hassle. When did we decide our time was worth more than not filling up a landfill?
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the_richard8mo ago
It's wild how many things we throw out that could be reused or sold. @brian_hart24 spotting the bottled water waste is part of the same pattern. Your cable crews ditching copper is just like folks trashing old electronics or stores tossing unsold food. We're stuck in a loop where dumping stuff seems easier than making a little effort. That mindset fills landfills and burns money for no good reason.
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the_troy7mo ago
My old self would have called this nitpicking over small stuff. Seeing the bottled water thing next to copper cables and old electronics though, it's all the same broken habit. We're trained to treat everything as disposable because it's faster in the moment. Makes you realize how much good stuff gets buried just to save five minutes of effort.
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walker.emma8mo ago
Used to think it was a waste of time. Now I see we're throwing money away and hurting the planet.
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