e-Waste association suspends free Makro voucher campaign

[Jan]

Goodbye free Makro vouchers for e-waste

The E-Waste Recycling Authority (ERA) has suspended its "The Future Started Yesterday" campaign, which rewarded people for handing in their electric waste with Makro vouchers up to R600 per person per day.

The ERA had originally planned to run the campaign over two weekends — 14 & 15 October and 21 & 22 October — but has cancelled it for the coming weekend.

 

[LCBXX]

Bagrezi's and Car-guards, rejoice!

 

[backstreetboy]

Steve Hofmeyr is that you:

 

[ToxicBunny]

No real surprise.

Especially when you'll give someone R100/R200 for something that is only worth about 5c as scrap value.

 

[marhsava]

my wife is going to be pissed now , yay for me because I don't have to stand in the queue this weekend lol

 

[L-Dog]

FML already lined up a few items for this weekend

 

[charlieharper]

Anyone have a working VCR?

 

[klipdrifter]

I went last week Saturday to get rid of some E-Waste. I hope they do it again soon, would love some more vouchers. Unfortunately, they created a tendency that you can get value for your e-waste so I doubt people will be so willing when they don't get a "reward".
However, the system they had in place was very tedious, so hopefully there is more opportunities in future where you don't have to stand in a que for 2.5 hours.

 

[Speedster]

Was expecting as much

 

[LCBXX]

Paying to save the planet really doesn't work.

 

[LCBXX]

Steve Hofmeyr is that you:
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[Kosmik]

And here I was clearing out some crap to go drop off this weekend

 

[Gazg]

I took my DSTV decoder there.........even they wouldn't take it.

 

[RudderVator]

I took my DSTV decoder there.........even they wouldn't take it.

Only thing useful in it is the harddrive

 

[rodga]

I took my DSTV decoder there.........even they wouldn't take it.

got R100 for a busted openview decoder

 

[mypetcow]

Urban mining here we come. There are so many minerals in these things that it makes sense to rather extract them from old electronics than to rip them from the ground.

 

[mypetcow]

 

[SteppaZA]

As I said in the previous article, too many people were scamming. The very same people who come on this platform to moan about government corruption.

 

[Speedster]

As I said in the previous article, too many people were scamming. The very same people who come on this platform to moan about government corruption.

I don't think scamming was the problem. The sheer volume caught them by surprise. When I spoke to the guy at Silver Lakes he said they'd done more than they expected for the entire weekend on Saturday, and by noon Sunday they'd already done more than Saturday. We're talking a good couple of million just at this one location.

 

[Sapphiron]

You know there are ladies on the internet that want you to look at their ass? Go look at theirs.