E-waste: Difference between revisions
(good references - this has just leaped up to being THE major concern in design, since ONE CHIP DOES MORE HARM THAN A CAR apparently) |
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*[http | *[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." | ||
*[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." | *[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." | ||
*[http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_8/critical/ a social ecology of wireless communication] | *[http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_8/critical/ a social ecology of wireless communication] | ||