Comments on: Responsible Disposing of E-waste

By: Sravan

Sravan — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 13:00:16 +0000

I’ve noticed that too, Brian. There were actually two of them. I contacted b5media and their legal department apparently sent them a “Cease & Desist Letter”. The legalese frightened one; but the other one remains persistent.

Ironically, they have both even copied by Types of Blog Fraud post:http://www.thatdamnpc.com/types-of-blog-fraud/. I intend to write an open letter to the remaining blog this weekend and see whether it copies that post too.

Sad story.

By: Brian Reich

Brian Reich — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:45:40 +0000

I contacted b5Media about this and haven’t received a response yet, but it looks to me like another site has stolen your content. I noticed it because when they copied this article, they also copied the link to my site and so they showed up in my “incoming links” last night.

Please contact me to get the URL, as I don’t want to give them the satisfaction of giving them an incoming link.

By: Sravan

Sravan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:45:49 +0000

Thank you for the video, Brian. I sent the link to one of the two; it’s his birthday. :)

By: Brian Reich

Brian Reich — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 22:20:13 +0000

That’s a shame to hear that they had to abandon that project! This video I found on YouTube really made me want to try… perhaps it would give your friends some ideas as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n0wOnLNXwc

By: Sravan

Sravan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:35:28 +0000

Thank [i]you[/i] once again, Brian.

2. Reminds me of Wall-E.:-)

3. I’ve a couple of enterprising friends who used to work on some e-waste plant building. A mechanical engineer and a metallurgical engineer. I think they made good progress with prototyping, but funding for green projects in India is very difficult. I think they had to abandon it.

By: Brian Reich

Brian Reich — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:31:24 +0000

Thanks for referencing me! : ) That’s probably the most useful article I’ve ever written. Since I wrote that I have played around with recycling computers myself to make a little money from working parts and scrap metal, and this is what I found:

1. Computers and other electronics are as much if not more plastic than they are metal. Unless you can recycle that plastic it defeats the purpose of recycling (and I haven’t found a way to do it).

2. It’s too time consuming on the small-scale to be worth it. You might as well send your electronics to a recycling center with a grinder that can quickly break down and separate materials.

3. There are ways to extract precious metals from various components, but again, on the small-scale I’m not so sure it’s worth it. And I lack the bravery and the location to play around with the acids required for the process.

I think a service like UNICOR is still the best bet for computer recycling.