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Trashware: image of e-waste and its effects
Guiyu is a city in China where most of the computers and electronical appliances dumped from the so-called "first world" (better called "first polluter"?) end up. Trashware tries to find a solution to this shame by collecting these computers, make them useful again using Free Software and donating them to local associations, schools, ...
About trashware, see Trashware is rightware for cash-strapped organizations or (in Italian) trashware.linux.it and Lo smaltimento dei rifiuti tecnologici.
For a report on E-waste, see Exporting Harm: The High Tech Trashing of Asia or www.ban.org/ or Ghosts in the machines or Where computers go to die
Trashware: image of e-waste and its effects
Guiyu is a city in China where most of the computers and electronical appliances dumped from the so-called "first world" (better called "first polluter"?) end up. Trashware tries to find a solution to this shame by collecting these computers, make them useful again using Free Software and donating them to local associations, schools, ...
About trashware, see Trashware is rightware for cash-strapped organizations or (in Italian) trashware.linux.it and Lo smaltimento dei rifiuti tecnologici.
For a report on E-waste, see Exporting Harm: The High Tech Trashing of Asia or www.ban.org/ or Ghosts in the machines or Where computers go to die