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'As technology accelerates, so too does Australia's electronic waste problem.
"With generative AI [artificial intelligence], there's a lot of waste and new
waste streams coming from data centres," explains Ross Thompson, CEO of
Greenbox.
"We live in a very consumer-driven environment at the moment, and manufacturers
are typically looking to churn out the next model of the iPhone or model of
laptop or PC or whatever that might be."
Every year, Greenbox processes millions of discarded computers and other
e-waste from large companies, government departments and agencies.
"The best form of e-waste recycling is actually reuse," Mr Thompson says.
"We typically try and extract as much value out of the asset before it needs to
be recycled."
The company is just one of a growing number of businesses that divert e-waste
from landfill.
"If we absolutely can't refurbish the asset and resell it into our global
networks that we have around the world, then we'll recycle the asset.
"The rare earth metals and the materials … will then go back into the circular
economy and be used in things like solar panels and other tech," Mr Thompson
says.'
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
