$60 Billion Potential Hiding in Your Discarded Gadgets - eviltoast
A $60 billion-a-year climate solution is sitting in our junk drawers
www.motherjones.com
In rich nations, just a fraction of e-waste is mined for critical metals. We’re going to have to up our game.

"Anwar’s job, scrounging for discarded electronics in [Nigerian] Ikeja Computer Village, one of the world’s biggest and most hectic marketplaces for used, repaired, and refurbished electronic products… "

  • fl42v@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Another idea for android phones is octo4a (octopi for android) if you’re into 3d printing. That’s what my nexus 6 with a dead display is doing. Also you can run docker on 'em if you can build the kernel, and it’s not too ancient (AFAIK, docker needs 3.something, so it’s like android 6 in general, maybe?), but I personally never got to it, unfortunately