Tag: E-Waste
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Teens Run E-Waste Recycling Business
15-year-old Jason Lin and his friends run iReTron.com, a business that buys, refurbishes and resells used electronics, from his family's garage.
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'Bio Computer' Blends Tech and Organic to Grow Wheatgrass
A self-described geek harvests the waste-heat of a computer tower to grow wheatgrass in his basement.
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Bikini Made of E-waste Makes Bold Statement About Women in Technology
Some people think that getting women engaged in technology will come if we blend it with fashion. Two artists have come up with a way to point out the problems with this strategy.
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100,000 Solar Charged LEDs Mimic Floating Fireflies in Tokyo Festival
A floating parade of LEDs designed to look like fireflies hit Tokyo this weekend, but raises the question of e-waste.
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The Week in Animal News: Cheetah-Dog Friendship, Robotic Animals from Old Computers and More
A cheetah and a yellow lab at Busch Gardens have been friends since they were little, an artist makes sweet robotic animals from e-waste and more.
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Broken Computers Come Alive as Robotic Animals
Artist turns old typewriters, cameras, modern printers and computers into birds, goats, squid, dinosaurs and more.
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The Week in Cleantech
A round up of cleantech stories that caught our eye this week, but we didn't have a chance to cover.
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French Web Site Rewards Green Actions with Presents (Video)
Cite Green is a French web site that rewards users' green actions with points, redeemable for gifts.
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Deep-Frozen Woman 'Denied' Eco-Burial
A dead woman frozen since 2009 specified she wanted an 'eco-burial' yet the Swedish state has yet to comply, threatening to give her a regular burial instead.
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See Inside a Canadian E-Waste Recycling Facility
Servers were the size of refrigerators and a single CPU chip had about $300 of gold when FCM Recycling started harvesting precious metals from computers.
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Pegasus Statue Made from 3,500 Phones Could Have Been Awesome
This rather phenomenal statue crafted from wire and cell phones is interesting, but we'd love to have seen one major thing done differently.
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UN Report: Up to 85% of Africa's E-Waste Comes from Within Africa
Last Friday, the UN Basel Convention's E-waste Africa Program reported their findings from studies in 5 West African countries over the last 3 years.
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German Post Offices to Cash in on e-Waste
Customer benefit or business? As e-waste becomes more valuable, the German Post Office enters the recycling game.
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The Week in Pictures: Newt Gingrich's Colony on the Moon, a Folding Microcar, and More
Newt Gingrich wants a colony on the moon -- here's what it could look like. A folding car is headed for production, Porto Alegre may have the world's most beautiful street and more.
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Furniture Made of Encapsulated E-Waste Is Perfect for Geeky Abodes
These designs made by Rodrigo Alonso Schramm are an interesting way to keep e-waste out of landfills and in your livingroom.
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E-Waste Isn't Cute: That Singing Valentine’s Day Card is Illegal to Throw Away in California
Generation Green points out the hazards of those "cute" singing cards that pop up during the holidays, and provide us with a petition to get manufacturers to stop making them.
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It's Official: Solar Modules Count As E-Waste
Known to be an environmental issue for ages, the EU finally determined that solar panels have to be collected and treated as e-waste.
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Computer Monitors Transformed Into Community Trash Bins
A clever design idea takes old TVs and computer monitors and turns the outer shell into public waste bins to clean up neighborhoods.
