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Tag: electronic waste
Top Waste Management Jobs For The Week Of December 27
Looking for waste management jobs? We’ve got the latest listings in recycling and waste handling from our sister site, the Green Job Post.
The Waste Biz: Should We Incentivize Food Donations By Business?
Does providing financial incentives for food donations of excess stock reward the right behavior? A Canadian professor doesn’t think so.
Electronic Waste Recycling Meets Job Training: Substation33
Australian social enterprise Substation33 addresses electronic waste recycling by training disadvantaged people in proper disassembly and processing.
The Modular Phone: Could Mobile Device Redesign Reduce Electronic Waste?
Cell phones still don’t get recycled very often. The modular phone concept has some hurdles to overcome, but would immediately reduce cell phone e-waste.
Upcycling The Digital Divide Away: The Digitruck
Arrow Value Recovery & Close the Gap use upcycling – of electronic waste as well as used shipping containers – to bridge the international digital divide.
The Waste Pickers Of Agbogbloshie: Kevin McElvaney’s Intimate Photographs [Video]
Kevin McElvaney’s photography collection Agbogbloshie puts a very human face on the dumping of electronic waste in the developing world.
Your Used Cell Phone Can Protect Rainforests [Video]
Topher White of Rainforest Connections shows how your used cell phone can be used as a sensor to pick up the sounds of illegal loggers at work.
The Waste Biz: Time To Shake Up The Recycling Business?
Waste Management’s CEO wants to shake up the recycling business to make it more profitable, rocket reuse, and food waste to liquid fertilizer.
Your New Year Resolution: Recognize The Ways You’re Harming The Environment
Still thinking about a new year resolution? How about cleaning up practices that harm the environment and the resources on which we depend.
sustainablog’s Best Of 2014: Our Top Ten Posts
Our best of 2014 included a lot of DIY upcycling projects, from building your own wind turbine to repurposing discarded electronic devices.
Recycling Computers, Phones, and Televisions: You’re Probably Not Doing It
A new study from Staples shows that we tend to hoard our used electronics rather than recycling computers & TVs after we’re done using them.
New E-Waste Recycling Marketplace Keeps Materials Out of Developing World
Want to make sure your e-waste recycling efforts don’t support offshoring of such wastes? The e-Stewards Online Marketplace gives you that assurance.