Reassembling Rubbish

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

By jlepawsky

Hayabusa 2 will finally start mining an asteroid on February 22nd
Engadget - Saqib Shah
It's set to grab some space rock samples to bring back to Earth. After blasting off toward a diamond-shaped asteroid in 2014, Japan's Hayabusa 2 probe reached its target more than three years later. It
Officials warn of putrefying piles of rubbish after no-deal Brexit
The Guardian
Government officials are preparing to deal with “putrefying stockpiles” of rubbish in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to documents leaked to the Guardian. If the UK leaves the EU without a deal
Electronic Waste
Electronic waste – the mounting environmental cost of disposable tech
mygoodplanet.com - Colin J McCracken
Electronic waste (or e waste) is addressed less often than plastic when it comes to recycling and the environment, but the perpetual consumption and …
World Economic Forum
The world’s e-waste is a huge problem. It’s also a golden opportunity
weforum.org - Guy Ryder
Humankind’s insatiable demand for electronic devices is creating the world’s fastest-growing waste stream. Some forms are growing exponentially. The …
Foxconn makes U-turn on $10bn Wisconsin factory after call with Trump
The Guardian - Dominic Rushe and agencies
Taiwanese tech giant Foxconn Technology said Friday it would build a heavily subsidized $10bn factory in Wisconsin days after the company appeared to be backing away from those plans. After speaking with
What happened to Foxconn's plan to build a $10bn factory in Wisconsin?
The Guardian - Randy Bryce
The Taiwanese company was offered $4bn in tax credits for a factory that might never materialize In 2017, Donald Trump and Wisconsin’s then governor, Scott Walker, broke out the champagne and announced
'Welcome to Sodom' - Six myths about electronic waste in Agbogbloshie Ghana
uio.no
The documentary Welcome to Sodom gets most of its facts wrong about the so-called 'largest electronic waste dump in the world', argue SMART …
The e-waste recycling startup
DW News - DW English
India is the world’s 5th largest generator of e-waste. Namo E-waste is a Delhi-based startup that recycles discarded electronics. It provides skills …
Nigeria's e-waste mountain
resource.co
Around the world, old computers and other electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) are creating scrap heaps of e-waste in massive sites full of …
Is Green Growth Possible? A Debate
ineteconomics.org - Paper Working paper By Enno Schröder and Servaas Storm
Wishful thinking and tinkering won’t cut it. Nothing short of a mass mobilization for deep de-carbonization across the global economy can avert the …
Recycling: Where is the plastic waste mountain?
bbc.co.uk - By Roger Harrabin & Tom Edgington
A year ago, experts warned that the UK could face a mountain of waste plastic as China imposed a ban on waste imports. In recent years, the UK has heavily relied on China to take our unwanted plastic Three
Japan Discovered a Rare-Earth Mineral Deposit That Can Supply The World For Centuries
ScienceAlert - JEREMY BERKE, BUSINESS INSIDER
Earlier this year, researchers found a deposit of rare-earth minerals off the coast of Japan that could supply the world for centuries, according to …
Long-form Journalism
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.
New York Magazine - Max Read
In late November, the Justice Department unsealed indictments against eight people accused of fleecing advertisers of $36 million in two of the …
Attorney seeks federal criminal investigation into Edison's handling of nuclear waste at San Onofre
sandiegouniontribune.com - Jeff McDonald
San Diego lawyer Michael Aguirre is asking the FBI to determine whether performance errors in the handling of radioactive waste by a Southern …
11,000 Signatures Wasn’t Enough to Keep Eric Lundgren Out of Prison
ifixit.org - Kyle Wiens
Today, Eric Lundgren turned himself in to the Sheridan Federal Correctional Institution, where he will spend the next fifteen months isolated from …
Meet the Photographer Infiltrating Russia’s Most Secret Places
VICE - Mirjana Milovanovic
Lana Sator offers us a rare peak into dilapidated weapons factories and bomb shelters. For Westerners trying to peer in, Russia seems impossibly secretive. But to Russians themselves, their cities are
La basura electrónica es una mina de oro para una empresa francesa de reciclaje
oroinformacion.com
Dada la creciente escasez de los metales preciosos y la cada vez mayor dificultad en acceder a los depósitos subterráneos, el reciclaje se ha …
Gold Recovery from Electronic Waste & Mining Process
mineworx.net
Cyanide-Free Precious Metals Extraction HM X-leach is a privately branded reagent under license to Mineworx by Enviroleach Technologies Inc. for …
Life-Blood of Tesla Batteries Hits Supply Limits in Andean Mine
theepochtimes.com - Bloomberg
For the past nine months, a U.S. company that is the world’s largest producer of lithium—a key ingredient in electric-car batteries—has been locked …
Singapore's 'freegans' find treasure in trash
Reuters - By Natashia Lee
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A new movement in Singapore that seeks to reduce the amount of consumer waste in the affluent city-state is scavenging for unwanted goods, some in near-mint condition, that migrant
As manufacturing processes behind our electronic devices put continual strain on the environment, see how Flex is making
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Creator Of Floating Garbage Collector Struggling To Capture Plastic In Pacific
NPR - Francesca Paris
A crew of engineers in the middle of the ocean will try to fix a device that was intended to clean the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, where an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic have coalesced into
If you recycled all the plastic garbage in the world, you could buy the NFL, Apple and Microsoft
PRI - Liberty Vittert
This year, I served on the judging panel for The Royal Statistical Society’s International Statistic of the Year. On Dec. 18, we announced the winner: 90.5 percent, the amount of plastic that has never
New Chinese policy is forcing people to think: Is there a better way to recycle?
PRI - Jason Margolis
For years, the model for global recycling was pretty simple: throw it in a bin, then let China deal with the mess. But no longer. It’s been a year since China got tough with American cans, bottles and
Acuarios del futuro 👇 https://t.co/VggEWMMxCD
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A security robot at LaGuardia Airport. We watched it, and it watched us. 🤖👁 https://t.co/SJToLiTWum
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Design Thinking
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
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 …