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Good Point: Ethical Electronics, Recycling "e-Waste" Blog: October 2014

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Tragedy 1: Export for Reuse is Better, and Legal Too. Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, ending is better … -                  - Brave New World / Aldous Huxley               . Export for repair and reuse is specifically legal. 160;Not just saying its not explicitly banned.  It is specifically and explicitly stated to be legal inside the text of the Basel Convention. B1110 Electrical and electronic assemblies:. Electronic assemblies consisting only of metals or alloys. 160;Its ...

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Good Point: Ethical Electronics, Recycling "e-Waste" Blog: July 2015

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Fiddling with Product Stewardship (as E-Waste Burns). Product Takeback/ Stewardship advocates and laws have manufactured a System for recycling . 160;which requires maintenance and stewardship.  The ship of Product Stewardship is seaworthy, but its headed for an iceberg if the advocates are just focused on the next legal product and dont take responsibility for the takeback laws they already created. Check the List, Below, of TV recycling company closures and failures. 160;- Ohio Recycler that was part o...

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Good Point: Ethical Electronics, Recycling "e-Waste" Blog: Fiddling with Product Stewardship (as E-Waste Burns)

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Fiddling with Product Stewardship (as E-Waste Burns). Product Takeback/ Stewardship advocates and laws have manufactured a System for recycling. Which requires maintenance and stewardship. The ship of Product Stewardship is seaworthy, but it's headed for an iceberg if the advocates are just focused on the next legal product and don't take responsibility for the takeback laws they already created. Check the List, Below, of TV recycling company closures and failures. Take a look out the window, my friends.

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How to Dispose of Old Computers Responsibly

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How to Stop Your Webcam From Freezing and Crashing on Windows 10. Eight Advanced RetroArch Features that Make Retro Gaming Great Again. How to Scan Documents to PDF with Your Android Phone’s Camera. Should You Use Windows’ Full-Drive Compression to Save Space? GET UPDATES BY EMAIL. Enter your email below to get exclusive access to our best articles and tips before everybody else. How to Dispose of Old Computers Responsibly. Ensure Data Is Destroyed. Using a degausser to wipe a hard drive clean is aimed a...

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Good Point: Ethical Electronics, Recycling "e-Waste" Blog: November 2014

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Tragedy 6: Now for a Balloon Dream And WhitePrivilege. I woke up between 2-3AM last night, from a very vivid dream (and strong acid reflux from trying too hard to reduce the Thanksgiving leftovers). Anyway, who should show up in my dream? 160; Jim Puckett, executive director of Basel Action Network. Came personally in response to the announcement.  He didnt go to the warehouse. he showed up at my home in Middlebury, Vermont. to inspect my balloons. Links to this post. Emmanuel E.P. Nyaletey is an...The u...

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Good Point: Ethical Electronics, Recycling "e-Waste" Blog: SMOKING GUN: Multiple Reports on Agbogbloshie, Ghana, source pollution!!

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SMOKING GUN: Multiple Reports on Agbogbloshie, Ghana, source pollution! Urban waste pollution in the Korle Lagoon, Accra, Ghana". Urban Waste") is an article that appeared in The Environmentalist in November, 2002. It was written by Markku Kuitunen and Kwasi Owusu Boadi at the University of Finland, following announcement of a major grant (mostly OPEC) to dredge the river and abate annual flooding. The Government of Ghana, having realized the adverse impacts of pollution in the lagoon on the physical and...

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Good Point: Ethical Electronics, Recycling "e-Waste" Blog: April 2015

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PRESS RELEASE: Agbogbloshie e-Waste Investigators Claim "Export Hoax". Hoax: Investigators call out Agbogbloshie "E-Waste Tragedy". Three weeks of research at Ghana "e-waste dump" and review of UN Studies and World Bank data confirm waste in pictures was not "dumped" by Western recyclers. Developed countries export millions of tonnes of electronic waste annually into developing countries such as Ghana,' the group based in the country claims on its website. 8221; Puckett says. -. Recycling experts have lo...

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Good Point: Ethical Electronics, Recycling "e-Waste" Blog: May 2015

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Q: Are Millions of Tons of Western "e-Waste" Dumped in Agbogblshie, Ghana? There is more and more e-waste in Africa.  But the West (Europe and USA) are exporting fewer and fewer containers of used electronics.   The implication is obvious. used electronics DID work for 5-15 years after they were imported - Africans are finally replacing TVs and computers they imported more than a decade ago. There is no big story here, other than the fake news was faked and Joe Benson is in jail because of it. How to fee...

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Good Point: Ethical Electronics, Recycling "e-Waste" Blog: March 2015

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Game Theory 5: Yankee Ingenuity changes to Soukous Ingenuity. Time to tweek the English Vocabulary. This post is about aid or nurture versus strategy for growth and self-sustaining economies.  Its not the proverb teach a man to fish.  Its Dudes! 160;Dont even you see this guy is fishing successfully? 160;Give him back his dang fishing pole.  Like, primum non nocere already! For some reason this depicts strategy by wiki. As Ive dubbed it refers to can-do/make-do in contrast to the Resource Curse. Suggesti...