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January 9, 2009

Strange But True!

Q. Let's talk trashy lingo for a minute: What has the dubious honor of being the fastest-growing segment of the garbage system?

A. Six billion humans generate an awful lot of “e-waste,” or “e-scrap,” in the form of discarded computers, monitors, cell phones and other electrical gewgaws, says Paul McFedries in IEEE Spectrum magazine. The process of recycling these components is called “e-cycling.”


 
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