<html><head><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000}</style></head><body><BR><BR> <STYLE>body { font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000}</STYLE> <DIV> <P>Fellow Technicians,</P> <P>A receint post mentioned transfering a piano to the landfill.  Does this bother anyone else but me?   (Actually, I don't like taking most things to the landfill, but that's another rant.  On most issues, I'm to the right of Ayn Rand, but on environmental things I'm almost a liberal!).   Over the last few years I've picked up and disassembled about 15 old uprights, mainly to keep them <U>out</U> of landfills.  Business wise this doesn't make sense, but it's my contribution to recycling, or so I tell myself.   I sell the plates and other metal for scrap, get lots of firewood for the shop stove, and sometimes find maple back posts!   Preserving that beautiful, seasoned maple gives me a kick.   I don't rightly have time for this, yet I can't just let it go.      Any better ideas for recycling?</P> <P>Mike Tocquigny</P> <P> </P></DIV></body></html>