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Eye-Opening Video: How E-Waste is Recycled

Hi SuperForest,

The folks over at Electronic Recyclers United have put together this incredibly eye-opening video that shows us what happens to our e-waste. On one level, it features a bunch of guys in suits wearing green ties walking around warehouses telling us how “green” their “cradle to cradle” method of handling waste is. Pretty cool. But on a deeper level, it shows us how incredibly huge and menacing our consumption levels are. And in order to have a really green effect on our planet, we should start by thinking about what we are consuming in the first place.

Check it out, it’s some rad stuff:

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Problem/Solution!

E-waste is now e-scrap!

Destined for dumps no longer, e-waste has been redefined as e-scrap.
Check out these two viddys.

The old way:

The New Way:

There’s money in them there trash hills!

There’s simply so much good news lately about trash-to-energy and waste-to-use projects that it is hard to doubt that the world will be a cleaner, smarter place, every time the sun rises. Go humans!

Check out Jim Glavin’s company: United Recycling Industries

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