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Recycling

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Wed 28 Jun 2023

Re-using products and materials.

You're so bad at recycling, this biz built an AI to handle it for you

Maybe start getting better at sorting your trash before these ML garbage bots gain sentience?
Bootnotes08 Dec 2024 | 42

UK electronics firms want government to stop taxing trash and let them fix it instead

CLEAR group calls for VAT to be dropped on spare parts, repairs, labor
Personal Tech17 Oct 2024 | 62

Recycling old copper wires could be worth billions for telcos

800,000 metric tons of cabling is just lying there
Networks31 May 2024 | 61

UN: E-waste is growing 5x faster than it can be recycled

Right to Repair should be the Obligation to Repair, if we want to avoid drowning in trashed electronics
Personal Tech21 Mar 2024 | 131

UK government lays out plan to divert people's broken gizmos from landfill

Right to repair meets right to recycle
Public Sector02 Jan 2024 | 122

Apples to apples: Boffins find a way to make e-waste edible

We're rubbish at recycling plastic, but Singaporean scientists think they can make more of it recoverable. Even the hard cases used in electronics
Science18 Sep 2023 | 7

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Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them

There's gold in them thar mobes. Also copper, silver and cobalt
Personal Tech28 Jun 2023 | 79

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