{"id":78792,"date":"2018-05-16T06:42:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T13:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/almost-everything-you-know-about-e-waste-is-wrong"},"modified":"2018-05-17T10:03:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T17:03:49","slug":"almost-everything-you-know-about-e-waste-is-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/almost-everything-you-know-about-e-waste-is-wrong","title":{"rendered":"Almost everything you know about e-waste is wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/almost-everything-you-know-about-e-waste-is-wrong.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of us think we know what electronic waste is because we wonder what to do with devices we no longer want or need.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the old cellphone and its charger stuffed in the drawer.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s that old laptop, monitor or printer packed behind the door or in the basement.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also all those things we throw out that are exported overseas, and picked over by people who are either <a href=\"https:\/\/discardstudies.com\/2015\/06\/23\/sweeping-away-agbogbloshie-again\/\">desperate for work, despite the health and environmental risks<\/a>, or at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anthropocenemagazine.org\/ewaste-repair\/\">forefront of a new green economy<\/a>, depending on the narrative you hear.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-e-waste-wrong.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-e-waste-wrong.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us think we know what electronic waste is because we wonder what to do with devices we no longer want or need. It\u2019s the old cellphone and its charger stuffed in the drawer. It\u2019s that old laptop, monitor or printer packed behind the door or in the basement. It\u2019s also all those things [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,39,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-economics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78848,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78792\/revisions\/78848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}