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But ... there is some perfectly good stuff that people won't even steal! CRT computer monitors are a prime example - I've found that you can't even give them away. And stuff with intermittent problems - that might even be accidentally "fixed" when whatever it is is plopped down on the curb - is often not worth fixing if you can't do it yourself. I had a 26" Mitsubishi TV with intermittently bad vertical hold, and a repair estimate of $250! I took it to our local recycling center's annual electronics recycling day, but if not for that it would have ended up on the curb. I also took some old audio stuff that I would have offered here for the price of shipping if I'd known about AK at the time.
Not to deny that people are wasteful, they definitely are, but sometimes I've left pretty good stuff at the curb on our twice-a-year "Riff-Raff Day" (aka "bulk waste collection) in hopes that one of the scavengers roaming around would take it and get some use from it. What's really a shame is that we don't have really effective ways to get cast-offs to those who might make use of them.
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