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olivergisttv · 2 months ago
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The Ultimate Guide to Tech Recycling and E-Waste Management
In today’s fast-paced digital age, technology is advancing at an astonishing rate. While this means we constantly upgrade our devices to stay current, it also leads to a growing issue: e-waste. Old gadgets, smartphones, and other electronics often end up in landfills, contributing to environmental degradation. Tech recycling and e-waste management have become critical in minimizing the harmful…
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buysellram · 7 months ago
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BuySellRam.com is expanding its focus on AI hardware to meet the growing demands of the industry. Specializing in high-performance GPUs, SSDs, and AI accelerators like Nvidia and AMD models, BuySellRam.com offers businesses reliable access to advanced technology while promoting sustainability through the recycling of IT equipment. Read more about how we're supporting AI innovation and reducing e-waste in our latest announcement:
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miamaimania · 2 months ago
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Upcycled Keyboard Handbag - recycled keys form a textured, tech-inspired fashion statement.
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reasonsforhope · 7 months ago
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"As the world grows “smarter” through the adoption of smartphones, smart fridges, and entire smart houses, the carbon cost of that technology grows, too. 
In the last decade, electronic waste has become one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world. 
According to The World Counts, the globe generates about 50 million tons of e-waste every year. That’s the equivalent of 1,000 laptops being trashed every second. 
After they’re shipped off to landfills and incinerated, the trash releases toxic chemicals including lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, and so much more, which can cause disastrous health effects on the populations that live near those trash sites. 
Fortunately, Franziska Kerber — a university student at ​​FH Joanneum in Graz, Austria — has dreamed up a solution that helps carve away at that behemoth problem: electronics made out of recyclable, dissolvable paper. 
On September 11, Kerber’s invention “Pape” — or Paper Electronics — earned global recognition when it was named a national winner of the 2024 James Dyson Awards. 
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When she entered the scientific competition, Kerber demonstrated her invention with the creation of several small electronics made out of paper materials, including a fully-functional WiFi router and smoke detector. 
“Small electronic devices are especially prone to ending up in household waste due to unclear disposal systems and their small size, so there is significant potential to develop a more user-friendly end-of-life system,” Kerber wrote on the James Dyson Award website. 
“With this in mind, I aimed to move beyond a simple recycling solution to a circular one, ensuring long-term sustainability.” 
Kerber’s invention hinges on crafting a dissolvable and recyclable PCB board out of compressed “paper pulp.” 
A printed circuit board (PCB) is a board that can be found in nearly all modern electronic devices, like phones, tablets, and smartwatches.
But even companies that have started incorporating a “dissolution” step into the end life of their products require deconstruction to break down and recover the PCB board before it can be recycled. 
With Kerber’s PAPE products, users don’t need to take the device apart to recycle it.
“By implementing a user-friendly return option, manufacturers can efficiently dissolve all returned items, potentially reusing electronic components,” Kerber explained. 
“Rapidly advancing technology, which forms the core of many devices, becomes obsolete much faster than the structural elements, which are often made from plastics that can last thousands of years,” Kerber poses. 
PAPE, Kerber says, has a “designed end-of-life system” which anticipates obsolescence. 
“Does anyone want to use a thousand-year-old computer?” Kerber asks. “Of course not. … This ensures a sustainable and reliable system without hindering technological advancement.”"
-via GoodGoodGood, September 13, 2024
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deezknits · 5 days ago
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cxged-bird · 5 months ago
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l've been cleaning empty veterinary medicine vaccine vials, and turning them into tiny little trinket potions. They also come in keychain form. I can make almost any color.
They make great fidget toys and my entire team at work loves them.
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A clean break: Scientists convert plastics into soaps and detergents
As an undergraduate student at Zhejiang University in eastern China, Greg Liu went with some of his classmates on a university-sponsored trip to tour a host of chemical industries within the area. The tour gave students pursuing degrees in chemical engineering an opportunity to learn more about the manufacturing and production processes of chemicals within China at the time. Liu realized that day exactly what he wanted to do for a career—find ways to alleviate or stop the industry from polluting the environment. "I realized that this was not going to be the sustainable way of our future. Pollution was everywhere; water, soil, road, you name it. Workers were in unbearable working conditions. I didn't want to be in an environment like that, nor our future generations," Liu said. "That basically drove me to think, 'OK, I must pursue an advanced degree to change the way we work in the chemical industry.'"
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onlytiktoks · 4 months ago
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resource-fm · 8 months ago
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gifs for big fans of trash
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ezlo-x · 2 years ago
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Question…does the game ever mention the guardians, sheikah shrines, towers, or the divine beasts at all?? Or does the game want me to pretend that it never existed?
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personal-blog243 · 2 years ago
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This is also the reason older generations say younger generations don’t know how to fix things!
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instantpansies · 1 month ago
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deep sigh... i need to stop streaming music on my phone and dig up my old ipod. i need to get a cassette digitizer to preserve my grandfather's recordings of him singing and playing the guitar before they get too damaged to play. i need to back up my spotify playlists on mp3. i need to delete my instagram. i need to stop using face id on my phone (i need to get something that isn't apple, for that matter. something with a headphone jack, ideally). i need to buy an external hard drive so i can actually play games. i need to figure out why i can't download the sims. i need to start living my life not dependent on streaming and the cloud and ready-made disposables and planned obsolescence!!!
i'm doing a decent job already, ive got my favorite albums and movies downloaded and i try to get my games not from steam and i have a cd drive and a record player and an aux cord for my computer and i share my streaming passwords with as many people as i can and i don't pay for spotify and i clear my cookies and block trackers and ads and notifications. i make coffee at home when i can and use libreoffice and waterfox and buy secondhand. i do what i can but i want to do more !
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novelconcepts · 2 years ago
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Honestly, I made that joke about Van’s ancient desktop, but it probably works better than new computers. And it made me think: god, Van must HATE planned obsolescence. Stuff that’s built to die? Stuff that’s built to fall apart in a matter of years just to force you to buy more? For a person whose whole deal is gripping tight to the past, to old technology that still works perfectly fine, to the idea of survival threaded through everything from the stories she tells to the machines she rents out? Yeah, dude. No wonder she hates her cell phone. Not only does it force the illusion of connection without actually granting intimacy, but it’s doomed from the minute you take the thing out of the box. For Van, the very idea has got to be offensive.
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solarpunkpresentspodcast · 9 months ago
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Join us for the final interview of this season, as we talk with Michael DeLuca, publisher of Reckoning, a yearly journal of creative writing on environmental justice, and author of The Jaguar Mask. Michael, impressed by the creative uses of cast off technology in the Global South, would like us to also adopt old tech. He recommends that we follow their lead and adapt old tech to suit our needs, as well as find creative new uses for old tech. We should do better than just be passive consumers of the tech that is sold to us more to the needs and convenience of the companies that produce it than to ours.
You can follow Michael via his website (mossyskull.com), Mastodon (@[email protected]), and Bluesky and X (@michaeljdeluca).
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iamthepulta · 4 months ago
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Making my own post because now capitalism is just revolving in my brain and I want to respond, but I've intruded more than enough. ^^"
I do think capitalism can be solved, and history actually gives me hope because it shows the fundamental need of society. Humans aren't inherently greedy or cruel. The greed and the cruelty are symptoms of a long-standing human need to make things better than they were before: to live comfortably, and without fear.
Capitalism is merely the current expression of this need that we live in.
Solving the need is absolutely possible by establishing a baseline standard of living and resource allotment. And that's comparable to an amount of 'work' that we deem acceptable in our daily lives. Because if you think about it, making coffee every morning with a Keurig gets you a similar product to making coffee every morning with a hand grinder and cold press: one just takes more resources and time than the other.
However, this needs to be flexible because humans are individuals with different needs, and the premise is also questionable because who's setting this baseline anyway?
I personally think it has more to do with government setting a cap on resource imports. (I think it should be stronger than tariffs, personally. Just a hard cap for the year.)
You can't really control demand. That's what most socialists do, and it always fails because humans fundamentally want to make their lives easier. But you can control resource management. If the government says we can only import 20 tons of cotton this year, and we produce 80 tons of cotton, so companies get 100 tons of cotton to do whatever with, and that's it. If we want more cotton, we have to axe some other import.
It 1) makes management visual. 2) gives citizens a personal reason to be invested in their government. 3) will not allocate resources fairly, but will show the true value of a product for the region it's in and prioritize local resources [i.e. if your country does not produce garnets, garnets will be more expensive than gold]. 4) increases jobs since there's far less incentive to outsource work, overall decreasing inequality. 5) encourages a circular economy.
In which case, I suppose I'm for some form of socialist autarky and I think that would solve a decent number of capitalist problems. Companies could no longer overrun workers and there's individual choice behind jobs, work, and some form of style of living.
It IS bad in like- fifty million other ways though. You can't just go from a country used to living in a capitalist society to imposing tariffs and screaming about autarky. Natural resources WILL be destroyed on your own soil and the biggest nation will have the highest quality of living. Imports have to be on a factor of population growth and this might only be possible with nations for a declining population rate. If at all. You also have to add a judicial angle for the people who will inevitably try to take over that system. And, most of all, you have to commit to not going to fucking war over state expansion for resources. Looking at you, Russia.
So I suppose we COULD solve capitalism, at the expense of a whole lot of other problems that are equally meh-to-bad.
Governments are fundamentally resource management machines though, and it's really stupid to pretend they aren't. With resource management, comes capping the fuck out of companies (specialists) that abuse the system (monopolies/oligarchies). When a government doesn't do that (whatever the method), it's failed its purpose as a government and also needs to be put down (revolution).
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solarpunkshoppe · 1 year ago
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Recycling And Salvage Practice!
I've recently come into possession of a very neglected (3+ years in a shed where winter happens) one of these "power wheel" toys. Batteries are probably shot, but motors might be good. These toys are for small children to drive around in. Can usually haul two children at a time.
What uses could the resulting salvage be turned into?
Components:
- plastic frame
- possible drive train
- gears
- motors
- plastic wheels
- (possibly more, but that's what I can think of)
Tell me in the tags or reblogs!
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