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| '''e-waste''' (never spelled with a capital E) is [[waste]] from [[electronics]]. It is often [[toxic waste]]. Also some types of electronics like [[cell phone]]s are thrown away on average once a year. Many projects focus on [[electronics re-use]] and [[electronics recycling]], and [[electronics standards]] to minimize [[obsolescence]]. Such choices as [[Java]] as the programming language could be affected as they require more hardware. Recognizing what are not real [[hardware requirements]] is critical to any [[healthy signal infrastructure]] - ideal minimal infrastructure is in effect already installed, already there, and requires no new [[tantallum]]. | | '''e-waste''' (never spelled with a capital E) is [[waste]] from [[electronics]]. It is often [[toxic waste]]. Also some types of electronics like [[cell phone]]s are thrown away on average once a year. Many projects focus on [[electronics re-use]] and [[electronics recycling]], and [[electronics standards]] to minimize [[obsolescence]]. One such is [[Project_Procrustes]]. |
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| *[http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/11/06/microchip021106 CBC News story], "it takes at least 1.6 kilograms of fossil fuels and chemical inputs to produce a single two-gram memory chip for personal computers."
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| *[http://www.esheep.org/story/EpFZEVlAuZhGdjRkIR.shtml UNU study], "weight for weight, the average computer chip does more harm to the environment than the car."
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| *[http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_8/critical/ a social ecology of wireless communication]
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