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Recycling Electronic Waste Could be a Golden Opportunity

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By Will Ferguson
December 1, 2022

By 2033, more than 1 billion laptops, cellphones, and other electronic devices could be entering the U.S. waste stream each year.

That’s according to a new study in Nature Sustainability that projects a dramatic increase in the amount and complexity of U.S. waste electronics in the decade ahead. If not properly recycled, this influx represents a growing cause for environmental concern as it contains many toxic materials, according to study coauthors Peng Peng and Arman Shehabi, two scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).

However, with better end-of-life management, Peng and Shehabi’s work shows electronic waste could also represent a source of valuable metals, namely gold, that could benefit the future economy by offsetting increasing demand for virgin mining.

In this Q&A, the researchers discuss the scale of the U.S. electronic waste problem as well as the potential of diverse management solutions across the country.

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How to direct-install Debian SID rolling release using mini.iso

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Download the "mini.iso" for your CPU architecture located here: https://d-i.debian.org/daily-images/ under */daily/netboot/

During the installation choose "Advanced options" -> "Expert install".

In the step "Choose a mirror of the Debian archive" choose version "sid - unstable"

Detailed instructions from Hayden James with screenshots

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