This video is pretty amazing news. Electrical trash is increasingly a big problem because of all the nasty metals and chemicals inside. What caught my ear was the bit about electrical trash being masked as “donations.” There are a lot of programs out there dedicated to taking your old computers and giving them to less priviledged societies to be utilized. How do we know who to trust?

It’s happening in China too.

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