by Alex Francis Photo by jseattle | Flickr.com If being able to earn some of your money back when you sell old and unwanted electronics to reputable recyclers isn’t enough of an incentive, then perhaps a recent report in The Economist about the damage that the exportation of our e-waste inflicts upon the people of [...]
by Alex Francis “Artysta (The Artist)” by Finnabair If beauty and art aren’t the first things that come to mind when you think of electronic scrap, then you clearly have not seen the work of Finnabair. Sourcing materials from old computers, broken metal objects, and pretty much anything else that she can get her hands [...]
by Alex Francis Photo by: wirralwater | Flickr.com At the conclusion of an 11-day trial, two executives at Executive Recycling, a Colorado-based electronics recycling firm, were found guilty of multiple counts of mail and wire fraud, environmental crimes, smuggling, and obstruction. Suspicious Going-ons The company’s illegal activity was exposed in a 2008 60 [...]