Hurray for non-toxic metals which replace lead solder under ROHS?
Who cares about gorillas and conflict metal mines, when wealthy nations landfill toxicity is at stake.
What is truly sad is that environmentalists my age began recycling before anyone thought it was a "waste" material... we did it to slow energy use and mining. We rode the "avoided disposal cost" wagon right off the cliff. Join the push-back against tin solder, tantalum, and tungsten (and I'd add gold and silver) in electronics. Or at least recycle them, make it closed loop.
Stopping Africans from repairing and recycling computers (with clean tools and incentives under fair trade) means 15,000 Ghana repairworkers lose their jobs. Should they go dig up tantalum so we can make brand new cell phones for them? Is this Basel Brand of Environmental Justice?
I know I've been harsh this month. But this is bloody important, and it's been ten years of the same poster children pushing shredders which don't even recover these rare earth metals. Hand disassembly, saving the chips themselves, is the highest, highest form of recycling. Stop taking pictures of kids at landfills and start taking pictures of good recycling operations, s'ils vous plaites.
Who cares about gorillas and conflict metal mines, when wealthy nations landfill toxicity is at stake.
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Stopping Africans from repairing and recycling computers (with clean tools and incentives under fair trade) means 15,000 Ghana repairworkers lose their jobs. Should they go dig up tantalum so we can make brand new cell phones for them? Is this Basel Brand of Environmental Justice?
I know I've been harsh this month. But this is bloody important, and it's been ten years of the same poster children pushing shredders which don't even recover these rare earth metals. Hand disassembly, saving the chips themselves, is the highest, highest form of recycling. Stop taking pictures of kids at landfills and start taking pictures of good recycling operations, s'ils vous plaites.
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Tell Cell Phone Companies To Stop using tantalum, tungsten, and tin for cells because using these products they finance armed conflict and atrocities in Congo. Companies need to take two steps to provide credible assurance that they are conflict-free:First, trace their minerals back to their specifi
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