Reassembling Rubbish

By jlepawsky

A magazine that inquires into what centres of modernism are discarding and reassembling ... or will be.

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Designer Reimagines How Today’s Online Apps Would Have Looked Like as ‘80s Gadgets
My Modern Met - Emma Taggart
Today, people can communicate with their friends, listen to music, play games, and much more all on their smartphones. However, before the World Wide Web, you had to use different devices depending on
Science Fiction
A science-fiction-inspired desktop UI for your Lin/Win/Mac system
boingboing.net - Cory Doctorow
Squared (AKA Gaby) is a French hacker who created edex-ui, a science-fiction inspired desktop "heavily inspired from DEX-UI and the TRON Legacy movie …
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In a Transylvania Town, Bears and Humans Collide at the Dumpster
The New York Times - By PALKO KARASZ and AKOS STILLER
BAILE TUSNAD, Romania — One night after work in Baile Tusnad, a run-down spa town in eastern Transylvania, a young couple sat in a dark-blue sedan, headlights on, gazes fixed on dumpsters on a cobblestone
Radioactive waste detected in container at Laem Chabang port
nationmultimedia.com
An unknown amount of radioactive waste has been detected inside an export container at the Laem Chabang Deep Seaport, the port's deputy director said.
5 recycling myths busted
National Geographic
EnvironmentPlanet or Plastic? What really happens to all the stuff you put in those blue bins? In partnership with the National Geographic Society. Last Earth Day, I published a column in the Washington
#CircularEconomy in the outer orbit... Right to Repair doesn't revolved around Recycling metals, reuse is the goto place
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Australian mining plant in Malaysia faces radioactive waste inquiry
sbs.com.au
The Chinese government has announced a slashing in the production of rare earth metals, a type of metal used in a range of high-tech products from …
Recycling Is Not The Answer To The E-Waste Crisis
Forbes - Vianney Vaute
People feel good about recycling, maybe even more so when it comes to electronics. Remembering to take your computer or smartphone and dropping it off to be recycled feels like an accomplishment in itself.
90% of world's children are breathing toxic air, WHO study finds
The Guardian - Matthew Taylor
Poisonous air is having a devastating impact on billions of children around the world, damaging their intelligence and leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, according to a report from the World Organization.
Democrats Seize on Trump’s Remarks About Nevada’s Yucca Nuclear Dump
Bloomberg - Ari Natter
Nevada Democrats are calling on President Donald Trump to follow through on his new-found opposition to the construction of a nuclear waste dump …
The 10 biggest copper mines in the world - Mining Technology
mining-technology.com - Akanksha Gupta
Escondida copper mine in the Atacama Desert in Northern Chile is currently the world’s largest copper mine by reserve. The mine contained more than …
Microplastics found in human stools for the first time
The Guardian - Fiona Harvey and Jonathan Watts
Microplastics have been found in human stools for the first time, according to a study suggesting the tiny particles may be widespread in the human food chain. The small study examined eight participants
Mystery of Mercury Levels in Arctic Animals Gets Solved
Live Science
In the Canadian Arctic, a mystery has troubled scientists and local communities for decades: Why do marine animals in the western Arctic have higher …
Thailand to ban foreign plastic waste from 2021 | Financial Times
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Thailand plans to stop all imports of foreign plastic scrap by 2021 as it joins other south-east Asian countries looking to stem an influx of waste …
Towards the circular economy - Reports - World Economic Forum
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A circular economy is an industrial system that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design. It replaces the end-of-life concept with …
Humans have been tossing junk into space for years. This net could help clean it up.
Mashable - Maria Dermentzi
Space junk is increasingly becoming a big problem for the future of spaceflight, but RemoveDEBRIS is trying to come up with a solution. During a …
A massive plastic cleanup project provokes hope and skepticism
pbs.org - Vicky Stein
It weighs as much as 43,000 cars, swirling nonstop in the ocean currents between California and Hawaii. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is an …
Rural dump sites getting overwhelmed by Whitehorse trash
cbc.ca
Mike Bailey says things got noticeably busier at the Mount Lorne dump last year, and it hasn't really let up since. "Our staff time is being severely …
The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies
Bloomberg
In 2015, Amazon.com Inc. began quietly evaluating a startup called Elemental Technologies, a potential acquisition to help with a major expansion of …
International E-waste Day | WEEE Forum
weee-forum.org
It is estimated that 50 million tonnes of e-waste will be generated globally in 2018. Half of this is personal devices such as computers, screens, …
Rethinking the electronic waste problem
phys.org - Lea Kivivali
Australia has limited capacity to process its own e-waste since the closure of the copper smelting plant in Port Kembla in the 1990s. A re-vamp of …
The treasure hidden in our gadgets
eco-business.com - By Catherine Early, chinadialogue
Gold is the most valuable metal in a phone. One tonne of gold ore contains around 1-5 grams of pure gold – but a tonne of mobile phones contains …
China to build $700m nickel plant in Indonesia for EV batteries | Financial Times
ft.com - Henry Sanderson
A consortium including China’s largest battery company, CATL, and materials supplier GEM Co will invest $700m to produce nickel for electric car …
Businesses are trying to reduce, reuse and recycle - Modern-day alchemy
The Economist
Special report Modern-day alchemyBusinesses are trying to reduce, reuse and recycle IN 2001, WHILE studying economics at the University of California, …
Battery explodes on landfill worker
cbc.ca
It probably didn't have enough juice left to power someone's drill or cellphone anymore, but a used lithium battery still contained enough energy to …
On the Trail of a Deadly Disease That Cuts Down Farmworkers in Their Prime
Bloomberg - Eric Fernandez
The tropical sun was beating down on Homestead, a city on the southern tip of Florida, when Valerie Mac, a nurse-scientist and occupational health …
RemoveDEBRIS Satellite Fires Giant Space Net to Clean Up Orbiting Garbage
Inverse - Danny Paez
Space might be expanding at a rate of 68 kilometers per second per megaparsec, but that’s still not enough room for us humans to keep filling it with …