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E-waste is a huge social and environmental problem. Artists and business could join forces to invent solutions and strategies to solve specific pieces of e-trash

In South Africa the waste disposal people will not remove any e-waste whatsoever. I believe that it is because monitor tubes explode when dozers, that level the site, ride over them. Specialist recyclers recover tiny bits of gold and other materials from computers. One way that artists could use plastics is that ABS is disolved but not destroyed by MEKP thinners. This compound can be used to "weld" ABS pieces together.
Posted by Max Friedenthal on February 12, 2011

A major problem with E-Waste is the ease of disposal. People are lazy. They will walk take out their trash and recycling to the curb, but they won't drive to an e-waste disposal location to get rid of it, no matter how much marketing effort is aimed at getting them to do so. The only solution to really deal with e-waste is to incorporate into the municipal waste disposal program (and give it its own separate bin).
Posted by Ryan Brady on August 6, 2010

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