http://gigaom.com/cleantech/holiday-tip-3-options-for-your-old-gadgets/ Sun, 27 May 2012 02:10:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/cleantech/holiday-tip-3-options-for-your-old-gadgets/#comment-8890 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 17:39:42 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/25/holiday-tip-3-options-for-your-old-gadgets/#comment-8890 [...] e-waste market is forecast to grow to $11 billion by 2009, with $3 billion in cell phones alone. Startups and even some retailers have been working to get in on this business but manufacturers have been [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/holiday-tip-3-options-for-your-old-gadgets/#comment-8889 Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:37:31 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/25/holiday-tip-3-options-for-your-old-gadgets/#comment-8889 Tip 4: repurpose it. Make it a dedicated music/video or print server, etc.

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/holiday-tip-3-options-for-your-old-gadgets/#comment-8888 Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:13:38 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/25/holiday-tip-3-options-for-your-old-gadgets/#comment-8888 Thanks for mentioning CollectiveGood as a place that will recycle cell phones responsibly. The January issue of National Geographic (where I work) has a story about the growing problem of electronic waste, and what happens to your old tv or computer when you try to recycle it: in many cases, the discarded equipment is exported to places like Ghana where it sits in huge toxic piles and gets picked over by children who try to extract the precious metals:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/2008-01/high-tech-trash/carroll-text.html

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