robin ingenthron, author at planet forward - 克罗地亚vs加拿大让球 //www.getitdoneaz.com/author/robiningenthron/ inspiring stories to 2022年卡塔尔世界杯官网 fri, 12 apr 2013 17:32:14 +0000 en-us hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 fair trade recycling //www.getitdoneaz.com/story/fair-trade-recycling-0/ fri, 12 apr 2013 17:32:14 +0000 http://dpetrov.2create.studio/planet/wordpress/fair-trade-recycling/ fair trade recycling balances the concern about “externalizing” pollution to developing nations with the concept of the “tinkerer blessing”, where reuse, repair and recycling is a way emerging markets do a better job of sustainability than we do. ftr uses the value of remarketable equipment to fund the collection of “e-waste” which these nations have accumulating in their own backyards.

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a group of universities (memorial university, university cp peru, university of southern cal, mit, univ of amsterdam, etc.) have received grant funding to research what is really happening with exports. how much of it is really being reused? what recycling practices are dangerous, and how can manual disassembly actually do better than shredding machines, etc.?

]]> fair trade recycling //www.getitdoneaz.com/story/fair-trade-recycling-2/ fri, 15 mar 2013 11:52:39 +0000 http://dpetrov.2create.studio/planet/wordpress/fair-trade-recycling-2/ exports of “e-waste” to emerging nations have been criticized or made illegal in some cases, because of toxic and unfair processes documented in some countries. at the same time, repair and reuse of electronics is very high, and considered a very good job. fair trade recycling is a movement started in middlebury, vermont, to cross train overseas technicians to properly recycle material they cannot repair, and pay them with better priced goods, like monitors and laptops and computers, which they can repair. our test sight in sonora, mexico, has been studied by four universities who just won a $479,000 research grant to evaluate how fair trade recycling, safe manual disassembly, and “take back” at the point of reuse sales, might work in africa, asia and south america. a “vermont fair trade recycling summit” will be held at middlebury college on april 16, a meeting of policy makers, regulators, overseas importers, electronic recyclers, and universities to discuss the “fair trade” margin between boycotting the poor, or sending them “toxics along for the ride.”

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