Japan's War On E-Waste

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Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 23, 2003 @05:17AM from the circle-of-life dept.

Stonent1 writes "With the increasing number of high tech devices in Japan filling landfills, Japan has taken a proactive approach to E-waste. BBC News has an interesting article on Matsushita's electronics recycling plant. For example, TV and monitor tubes are opened with a special tool and separated into leaded and unleaded glass, melted and reused in new displays! The plastic housing is also melted down and reused. Sounds like a good idea for the U.S., too."

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Just remember kids... by Realistic_Dragon · 2003-07-23 05:24 · Score: 3, Funny

Please recycle your electrons responsibly. It's a great shame that our e-landfil sites are filling up with so many bits and bytes that could otherwise be reused.

If we don't take care to conserve our resources now, in 20 years time there might not be enough free data to allow any new films, music or even slashdot posts, thus crippling society as we know it.

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What I want to know is... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-23 05:29 · Score: 3, Funny

Dell is using prison labor to handle recycling in an unsafe manor.

Why the hell are prisoners being housed in a manor? They belong in jail!
E-Waste? by Zardoz44 · 2003-07-23 05:34 · Score: 3, Funny

EWhy edoes eeverything eneed ean ein efront eof eit ewhen eit ehas esomething eto edo ewith ethe einternet eor ecomputers e?
Is food waste f-waste? Email is fine, ebusiness was tolerable. Give it up. It's old.
Why the hell...? by tevenson · 2003-07-23 05:35 · Score: 3, Funny

Why would we do this. We've got MONTANA to fill up.
Re:5 word by KillerHamster · 2003-07-23 05:45 · Score: 4, Funny

In a greedy, selfish kind of way, I hope computer recycling doesn't catch on too fast, since I have gotten most of the hardware I have from residential trash piles. It's just starting to get good, too - they're throwing out Pentium II's now, and 10 GB hard drives! After a few years, imagine the size of the Beo..er, never mind.
That would never work... by m3djack · 2003-07-23 05:47 · Score: 4, Funny

The city of New New York has been garbage free for centuries, mostly because the city got rid of all its garbage in the 21st century by compacting it all into a big ball and firing it into space. The porn movie "The Great Garbage Crisis of NY" gives the historical details to this.

But later on when the giant garbage ball was discovered to be on retour course to hit Earth, something had to be done. After a failed attempt by the Planet Express crew to blow up the ball, Philip J Fry came up with the idea of constructing another ball of garbage, and firing it at the one in space in an effort to send it reeling off course. All of New New York did their part to make garbage, and Fry's plan was a success.

Thanks gotfuturama.com!