"There's no denying..." Below are tweets sent last night from Australia, where the New York Times opinion author wrote yesterday's column about how cell phones and electronics are exported for primitive burning. I tried to reason (and am still trying)...
Leyla Acaroglu's TED Talk is called "Environmental Folklore". It's about using Lifecycle analysis to determine the real environmental costs of our decisions. She talks about the scatalogical focus of "end of life", which is the same theme/mantra of this blog. She should be open to the idea that the carbon, energy, and environmental cost of a display device are mostly embodied from before it's even sold or initially used, and therefore (like UNEP) agree that reusing it makes more sense than shredding it. But she says "even what is donated eventually becomes a legacy..."
In the TED talk on youtube, I agree with her thinking about plastic vs. paper. What we need to do is get her to apply the same "looking at the entire system" to assess CRT reuse vs. CRT shredding, the "green myths".
"Before you listen to this little guy in your head..., you should stop and question what you think you know".
She and I completely agree on the Lifecycle. The problem is, that when she writes about "e-waste" and cell phones, she's letting the Little Green Gal do all her talking. Greenpeace and BAN are telling little green lies, and it's not turning out well for Technicians of Color.
Here's the fascinating part... While she appeared to deflect the studies showing that the E-Waste Myths had exaggerated the dumping by tenfold, and even sent links to the UN studies back to me (and Adam M), and sent links from the "dark year" of 2010 which is when the studies were commissioned... her TED talk is actually - fantastically - titled "Question what you think". It's all about using science and lifecycle to define sustainability, and to beware "environmental myths".
Leyla Acaroglu
@EcoInnovators2h@AdamMinter There is no denying that the US exports and in cases dumps waste on other countries. Just one example http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2010/12/01/e-waste-investigation-nabs-green-recycler-eri …Details@EcoInnovators2h@AdamMinter Even what is 'donated' eventually becomes a legacy that has to be dealt with. Read what the UN says http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=612&ArticleID=6471&t=long …
In the TED talk on youtube, I agree with her thinking about plastic vs. paper. What we need to do is get her to apply the same "looking at the entire system" to assess CRT reuse vs. CRT shredding, the "green myths".
"Before you listen to this little guy in your head..., you should stop and question what you think you know".
She and I completely agree on the Lifecycle. The problem is, that when she writes about "e-waste" and cell phones, she's letting the Little Green Gal do all her talking. Greenpeace and BAN are telling little green lies, and it's not turning out well for Technicians of Color.
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