Green | February 11, 2009 | 13 comments

Buy it, Use it, Break it, Junk it

source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mLtheejM30

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Don't take your e-waste for granted, you don't really want a toxic environment, do you?
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13 comments // Buy it, Use it, Break it, Junk it // Video

  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  

    • Funny how language changes. Used to be that a guy who wore a pocket protector and knew how and why stuff worked and how to fix it was a nerd. From all the way back to sideshows and on the Ozzie Osbourne, a geek was a guy who did stuff like biting the head off a live chicken.

    • 3 years ago
  • Dmitri_Molotov
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      Dmitri_Molotov  

    • I use e-waste personally by ripping out circuit boards and putting them on my jacket. Many people have thought this was cool, but don't be surprised if people ask you why.

    • 3 years ago
  • Sam_the_Wizer
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      Sam_the_Wizer  

    • 10 year old computers still run great with Linux. It's Microsoft and Apple with their planned obsolescence that cause still useful machines to get dumped. People give me their old machines, I install Linux and give them away to people that need them. If you have an old computer don't toss it, give it to a geek.

    • 3 years ago
  • JimboTheHippo
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      JimboTheHippo  
    • Sam_the_Wizer:

      Well that is a good way to do it. But technology keeps on advancing and new computers that are faster hold more memory are developed so quickly I wish we could recycle properly but should we slow how fast technology advances?

    • 3 years ago
  • JimboTheHippo
  • ras_menelik
  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  

    • I saw a documentary on the people doing the kind of recycling seen in the ad where the investigative team was chased off by Chinese officials. The bad news is that they were chased off. The good news is that they wouldn't have been chased off if the officials weren't concerned that the publicity would hurt them. Ergo, let's pile on the publicity.

      In that same documentary the head of a recycling firm in Denver was interviewed. He swore he wasn't sending stuff to those poor workers in China. Turned out he was doing just that, via some trickery with unlabeled or mislabled trucks and containers. That's another good target.

    • 3 years ago
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  
    • Scarabus:

      I've seen the same documentary, pretty much a small city of e-waste where these Chinese (mostly kids) work 16 hours per day taking in toxins. Most are lucky to reach the age of 30, and if they do they are really messed up in the head from lead, mercury, and whatever else they breath in every day.

    • 3 years ago
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