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There was a meeting about Electronics Recycling in California, long ago.. A new California law was going into effect regarding E-Waste. Many companies, media o
by mistrial9 3y ago
There was a meeting about Electronics Recycling in California, long ago.. A new California law was going into effect regarding E-Waste. Many companies, media outlets, smart people and activists were gathered.
A particular guy stood up and pitched his company solution. That company was called Unicor. The spokesman was well-spoken, had clear points, and was African American. The pitch essentially was, use prison labor for E*Waste, contracted via Unicor.
A second person stood up in the audience and called it what it was, in front of everyone. Privately, the two nearly came to blows back stage out of sight, shortly afterwards.
this is not fake in the USA, and even more not fake elsewhere in the world.
- Supermancho 3y agoI heave heard of Unicor, when I lived in CA. My best friend used to haul for them to e-waste distros. https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2016/12/01/federal-prison-system-halts-e-scrap-processing-at-five-sites/ https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2016/12/01/federal-pr...
- mistrial9 3y agoyes, true story. The anti-humor follow-up is .. that same "prison labor objector" gave a rousing and heartfelt speech to Googlers in Mtn View around the same time.. more than 200 engineers and others at a meeting.. Googlers did nothing.. Apple did (almost) nothing.. it never was solved really.. much worse going on now