Shock and dismay.

iRobot, the company behind the geek- and cat-friendly Roomba family of robotic vacuum cleaners is dispensing some terribly outmoded waste disposal advice. After receiving a non-functioning refurbished Roomba Scooba, iRobot quickly mobilized to send Graham Hill of TreeHugger fame a new one.

+1 for customer service!

But things turned decidedly eco-unfriendly–bordering on eco-hostile–when iRobot instructed him to just toss out the old one and let the garbage men deal with it. ONE MILLION DKP MINUS!!!1!!!

Catch up on the saga over at Treehugger.