Last year for the hell of it I took a class that actually looked at computer recycling. Not only did we look at what currently happens in a lot of places (eg. monitors sent to China, environmental disaster ensues) but at the other options as well.
I took a tour Noranda Recycling where they use an environmentally friendly process to recycle the electronics, but here is the thing. Almost everything they were sending throgh the shredder was new. I guess when something is returning twice to a store, functioning or not it is marked for desstruction. You can imagine the pain of watching hundreds of digital cameras sent into the shredder. After wards I asked the foreman if they ever took things home. He said that there was a strict policy to not take anything, working or not and that someone was fired every week for taking things. Laptops, memory, cameras it all went into the shredder. Enough to make a grown geek cry.
I just wanted to add, this place was hemoraging money as well.
I live in the Northwest Territories (Canada) and I can say in the last 15 years the winters have become much warmer. I remember stretched where is was -35 C for 3 weeks at a time. Now it only reaches that occasionally. I cannot speak for long term trends however.
And yes, I did walk to school both ways uphill.
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Last year for the hell of it I took a class that actually looked at computer recycling. Not only did we look at what currently happens in a lot of places (eg. monitors sent to China, environmental disaster ensues) but at the other options as well.
I took a tour Noranda Recycling where they use an environmentally friendly process to recycle the electronics, but here is the thing. Almost everything they were sending throgh the shredder was new. I guess when something is returning twice to a store, functioning or not it is marked for desstruction. You can imagine the pain of watching hundreds of digital cameras sent into the shredder. After wards I asked the foreman if they ever took things home. He said that there was a strict policy to not take anything, working or not and that someone was fired every week for taking things. Laptops, memory, cameras it all went into the shredder. Enough to make a grown geek cry.
I just wanted to add, this place was hemoraging money as well.
I live in the Northwest Territories (Canada) and I can say in the last 15 years the winters have become much warmer. I remember stretched where is was -35 C for 3 weeks at a time. Now it only reaches that occasionally. I cannot speak for long term trends however. And yes, I did walk to school both ways uphill.