recycledmatt

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by recycledmatt 4y ago
Copper too!
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
Ifixit has repair ratings on devices. You can look at things like LEED certs on some as well
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
The larger concern is that the manufacturers would change how you ‘purchase’ hardware - one possible circumvention is that they make it so you don’t purchase your electronics any more, you’re just long term leasing them.
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
As someone in the recycling supply chain, this is incredibly cool. The possible carbon reduction emissions are massive. This would need to scale up by factors of 100 (400 tons a year is nothing- a single sea borne cargo that is traded is of
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
You would not be able to throw it in a ‘smelter’ and have it maintain its chemistry - smelters are huge mass production shops. A foundry could do this without problem. They exist to do small, chemically precise runs.
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
You also tend to see a higher rate of failure in the first few years which then drops off over time
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
If you’re trying to recycle 100%, this is an expensive and hard to handle stream. If you’re cool pulling the aluminum and Alternative Daily Cover / landfill the rest, it’s not that bad and the infrastructure can handle it / exists
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
They can recover the aluminum fraction with an Eddy Current. The panel becomes Adc or land fill
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
These will go into auto shredders (for the most part) which have dust management plants
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
Those are licensed, not sold. This is one concern people have with Right to Repair - that the OEMs would just turn everything into a long term lease and you wouldn’t actually own your stuff any more. Then they can put whatever rules they wa
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
Yes, but generally this is protected by the First Sale Doctrine which allows you to resell stuff you already own.
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
EPA has done a good job quantifying this with their WARM standards. We think of recycling impact by the ton and recycling a ton of phones is an order of magnitude better than recycling cars, and reusing/refurbishing phones is multiple
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
There are serious problems e-scrap recyclers are looking at, but this is repeating old statistics, and has no clue of what the industry is facing. A decade ago, it was all about what we would do with CRTs. Five years ago, it was that the va
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
Is it really a competition if you are doing $73 trillion in transactions and your competitor is at a $80 billion a year run rate?
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
The V2 characterization as a drone in ww2 also made me think the same thing.
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
Do scrapers all proxy out of Seoul now?
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
If someone setup a fund to pay fisherman 5 cents a pound to bring their nets back, and then they would deal with disposal, they could avert most of this. No one has stepped up with $50 million a year tho to solve this.
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
Of course it’s none, but there are other sources of plastic pollution that are much larger contributors. To me it’s not about the amount, but the ROI on mitigation measures
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
There is one in Baltimore!
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
The issue is economic incentives do not align. The fisher can bring it back to shore and probably have to pay to dispose of it in a landfill. Or they can drop it in the ocean for free, while creating a negative externality.
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
It is 50,000 tons per year. In plastic recycling terms, not that much volume. A very large plastic recycling facility can do about 200,000 tons in a year. http://intelligentliving.co/worlds-largest-climate-neutral-p... A tr
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
In high volume test and repair environments this exists, but part of how they can do it is they erase and overwrite the data on the phone. When you don’t care about the users data this becomes much easier. Data migration is a pain. (Esp whe
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
You want to turn it back on to validate everything is working right and it’s all plugged in correct. You also want to validate you didn’t break anything else while attempting the repair
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
Article says they are building 4 at the same site - there are economies of scale in generation / transmission and in security, but more important building smaller plants may keep the cost overruns lower.
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by recycledmatt 4y ago
Depending on the stream (source) and chemistries there are ways to separate out plastics of concern (POCs) but they aren’t fully at scale yet depending on stream. It’s also very hard. You go by separating valuable fractions out first.
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by recycledmatt 5y ago
The recycling isn’t the expensive part, it’s the collection. If someone had 20 tons of these, they might actually be able to be paid for the value. It would most likely go to a battery smelter and they would burn / melt off the non-bat
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by recycledmatt 5y ago
If we use the 4 gram number, 240 million grams is about 264 tons. In recycling terms, that is really nothing - the equivalent of about 10 well packed sea containers or 13 tractor trailers. Some decent size single facilties can do that in a
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by recycledmatt 7y ago
These aren’t traditional cell phones, think more GPS units with a cellular chip so they can report back their location. One issue with these is they have batteries, and are placed in devices like printers that no e-scrap processor ever chec
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by recycledmatt 8y ago
>> No need to buy iPhone each year help on that. 89K per person - means we could buy them all an iPhone with 88.5K left over. Corporations and Governments have a huge role to play in this.
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by recycledmatt 8y ago
Great tax environment for running a reseller.

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