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5 votes
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Ancient technology: Saxon glass-working experiment
5 votes -
How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world
12 votes -
This house was built using 600,000 recycled plastic bottles
11 votes -
Experts scoff but Joost Bakker believes he can make oil from dirty plastic
4 votes -
The world's first automatic textile recycling facility will be built in Malmö
6 votes -
How the Swedish town of Eskilstuna became the world capital of recycling
5 votes -
Asian countries take a stand against the rich world’s plastic waste
11 votes -
"Shipbreakers" A documentary about the people and communities involved in the dangerous and dirty industry of scrapping old ships. (2004, National Film Board)
9 votes -
Malaysia returning unwanted Canadian plastic
5 votes -
The new recycling is called 'recommerce’
4 votes -
Carefully, Japan reconsiders the trash can
9 votes -
What should I do with all my old tech junk?
I am currently decluttering, and I have boxes upon boxes of accumulated tech stuff (for lack of a better term). USB cables, dongles, flash drives, cameras, MP3 players, phones, installation discs,...
I am currently decluttering, and I have boxes upon boxes of accumulated tech stuff (for lack of a better term). USB cables, dongles, flash drives, cameras, MP3 players, phones, installation discs, etc.
It's a giant mess that I want to be rid of, I just don't know the best way to go about it and thus have some questions:
- What's my best course of action: Is "electronics recycling" the way to go? Should I sort it and donate the useful stuff to a thrift store? Would local mom-and-pop computer shops potentially be interested in some of it?
(Note: I have no interest in extracting money from the hoard and would be happy for the useful stuff in there to go to a "good home" that can take advantage of it.)
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Is there anything that's simply not worth donating/recycling? Should I simply throw some older stuff (e.g. floppies, component cables, anything with a parallel port) out, or does recycling somehow reconstitute the metals/resources in them?
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I have several dead hard drives and flash drives that have personal information on them that I was never able to wipe. Should I just hold onto these indefinitely since someone could use them maliciously, or is the likelihood of that happening close to nil?
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Timor-Leste aims to become world's first plastics-neutral country
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Economics of recycling
11 votes -
On poisoning children
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How US recycling is changing now that China won’t take it
11 votes -
India confirms scrap plastic ban will be delayed
7 votes -
Hundreds of US cities are killing or scaling back their recycling programs
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What happens now that China won't take U.S. recycling: Many waste-management companies are simply burning recyclables or sending them to landfills
15 votes -
Five Melbourne councils forced to dump recycling in landfill as Victoria crisis deepens
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How to solve the world’s plastics problem: Bring back the milk man
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How to make sure your recycling gets recycled
8 votes -
To highlight the waste material from discarded electronic parts, artist Zayd Menk is building a small-scale model of London's Westminster area solely out of e-waste
11 votes -
Charities spending millions cleaning up fast fashion graveyard
9 votes -
Taiwan has one of the highest recycling rates in the world. Here’s how that happened.
8 votes -
Plastic water bottles, which enabled a drinks boom, now threaten a crisis
12 votes -
No more of your junk
7 votes -
I collected my plastic waste for a year, and learned the truth about recycling
14 votes -
What should I do with my broken kettle?
15 votes -
Oysters on the half shell are helping save New York's eroding harbor
13 votes -
Using their loaf: Baker reuses leftovers to make waste bread
14 votes -
Why Recycling Doesn't Work
13 votes -
Here’s how many times you actually need to reuse your shopping bags
25 votes -
How one Canadian food court eliminated 117 bags of garbage a day
8 votes -
Plastic food pots and trays often unrecycleable
6 votes -
More recycling won't solve plastic pollution
11 votes -
More recycling won't solve plastic pollution
15 votes -
The man who paves India's roads with old plastic
10 votes -
China Has Refused To Recycle The West's Plastics. What Now?
7 votes -
Recycling a plastic soda bottle
6 votes -
China just handed the world a 111-million-ton trash problem
17 votes -
Will biodegradable polymers alleviate plastic’s environmental impact?
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Recycling firm to clients: we're burying your waste, not recycling it
12 votes -
Nespresso introduces free coffee pod recycling by mail in Canada
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Here's where your donated clothing really ends up
10 votes