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not too long ago you probably weren't thinking all that much about electronics

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disposal but nowadays there's a veritable glut of inexpensive portable

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Electronics available around the globe in fact they're so common that some

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countries are starting to treat internet access as a human right and like

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anything else our Electronics wear out over time or at the very least become

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embarrassing when something better comes along which can take a surprisingly

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short amount of time I mean think about how often smartphones get updated so

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what happens to all this stuff when we're done using it does it all go to

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some retro Tech Museum in the sky when

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we throw it away unfortunately no much

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of it simply gets buried in landfills when people throw out their old modems

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or whatever else along with banana peels and that clown toy that Sally never

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wanted to play with for some reason but as you might guess most electronic waste

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or e waste isn't biodegradable and even

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contains toxic metals like Mercury and

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cadmium as well as other not so good chemicals that can leech through

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landfills and end up in groundwater not

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a great situation I mean even if you don't think of yourself as a tree hugger

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you're probably not a big fan of mercury flavored coffee so lots of folks then

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opt to recycle their E-Waste instead of

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just tossing it in the trash but how exactly does Electronics Rec cycling

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work well sorry to bust your happy

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carbon neutral bubble but the Inconvenient Truth is that it often

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doesn't although there are lots of places that advertise electronic waste

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disposal much of it doesn't actually end up disposed of properly at all instead

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much of it is shipped off to poor countries for Reclamation where things

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like circuit boards are literally set on

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fire or dunked into acid so the workers

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can go dig through it afterwards and recover useful materials such as copper

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and gold so as you might be able to guess then there are lots of toxic fumes

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that get released when electronics are burned which has created serious health

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problems in impoverished areas that are economically dependent on this kind of

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dangerous manual labor nevertheless it

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continues to happen because shipping e waste to a less fortunate part of the

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globe is cheaper than processing it at

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home of course this isn't meant to be a sociopolitical lecture so let's talk

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then about how reputable electronics recycling and disposable Services deal

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with your unwanted ghosts from black Friday's past some places like free geek

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Vancouver rely on manual volunteer labor

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to separate Plastics and metals and the different kinds of plastics and the

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different kinds of metals so they can be reused Andor recycled but there are

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higher Tech facilities that actually automate this process by using automatic

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shredders that will shred your old

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processors motherboards and electric toothbrushes without releasing the same

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kinds of harsh chemicals into the air that burning does after shredding the

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bits of e-waist are sorted Sometimes using optical sensing for increased

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accuracy Accord according to the types of materials which are then sold to

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other companies that use these reclaimed metals and Plastics in other products

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everything from car batteries to Furniture of course if you have

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something that's outdated but still functional it's usually better to find a

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way to reuse it rather than recycling it

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so you can sell or donate it to an organization again like free geek here

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in Vancouver that specializes in refurbishing old electronics and

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computer Hardware with that said sometimes it's

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just broken so if you do have to recycle it make sure you're taking it to a

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reputable recycler and not a place that'll just ship it offshore or you

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could just sell it to the script Kitty down the street and exchange for your

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very own botn net yes speaking of selling things do

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