Enlarge / The Fairbuds and their replaceable components, including the notably hand-friendly, non-soldered batteries. reader comments 97 Fairphone has spent years showing us that it could do what major phone manufacturers suggest is impossible: make a modern-looking phone, make it brazenly easy to open up, design it so battery swaps are something you could do ..
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reader comments 46 with Government building rules and regulations can be outdated and misguided, insisting upon conventional building materials with prices that aren’t compatible with building affordable housing. The building codes suggested by the United Nations decades ago often preclude using local, lower-cost, and environmentally friendly materials. Of late, certain researchers have speculated that they ..
Getty Images reader comments 216 with The plastics industry has long hyped recycling, even though it is well aware that it’s been a failure. Worldwide, only 9 percent of plastic waste actually gets recycled. In the United States, the rate is now 5 percent. Most used plastic is landfilled, incinerated, or winds up drifting around ..
Ron Amadeo reader comments 107 with David Hamp-Gonsalves had two things quite a few people have these days: old phones lying around and a slowly building desire to get another Raspberry Pi for a quirky personal project. The project this time was a personal music streaming server (detailed in full on GitHub). While Pi inventories ..
Enlarge / Recycling is sorted at the Sims Municipal Recycling Facility in New York City in 2015. Spencer Platt/Getty Images reader comments 102 with Share this story To jumpstart a paltry market for recycled plastic, governments across the globe are pushing companies to include recycled materials in their products. Last year, the United Kingdom introduced ..
Enlarge / A safety seminar on lithium-ion batteries from May 2022 illustrates what happens when you subject charged batteries to pressure or puncture—or both. Getty Images reader comments 86 with 0 posters participating Share this story A firm that handles returned Amazon electronics has agreed to pay a $25,000 fine after lithium-ion batteries it threw ..
Enlarge / Framework is testing and servicing refurbished laptops at a facility in New Jersey and selling refurbished expansion cards to go with them. reader comments 37 with 30 posters participating Share this story Framework, makers of the modular, repairable Framework laptop, has started offering a refurbished version, along with packs of its signature USB-C ..
Enlarge / A new method helps recover gold from E-waste at a higher rate than it can be extracted from fresh ore. Reiko Matsushita/Shinta Watanabe reader comments 55 with 37 posters participating Share this story Gold and certain other precious metals are key ingredients in computer chips, including those used in consumer electronics such as ..
reader comments 71 with 48 posters participating Share this story Almost every aspect of modern society relies on materials of limited quantity on Earth. In order to live within the limits set by our planet, we have to figure out how to make the most of what we extract and reuse whatever we have extracted. ..
Yagi Studio | Getty Images reader comments 39 with 28 posters participating Share this story Since the first factories began manufacturing polyester from petroleum in the 1950s, humans have produced an estimated 9.1 billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. ..