Trying to do the right thing and take a dead laptop (securely wiped) for recycling. Did my research, and found that all Officeworks stores accept computers and laptops, hurray! There is even one easily accessed via public transport!
Except they don't. And the staff have no idea which I can recycle it. And suggested Bunnings. So I've taken an old dead laptop for a long outing this evening.
End of 10
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025.
Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer.
But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
I was listening to Linux After Dark (or was it Friday Night Deploy?) and it was asserted that 8th gen intel is no longer the gold standard for daily driver laptops in the used market.
What do you think?
@jmaris @kde I think getting rid of #Windows is the correct approach.
When I worked at an ad agency, we used to do this all the time. It was a very popular sales leave behind our clients would ask us to make for them. This was many years ago before anyone considered #ewaste. https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/114427898023752235
Shoutout to the marketing ‘expert’ who mailed a large, battery-powered, LCD-equipped video greeting card to our CEO to demonstrate their innovative approach to ignoring the #ewaste crisis. Bold strategy.
We’ll be sure to reach out if we need help shipping steaks and leather handbags to PETA.
@eri worse even is the #EoL of #Winfows10 and #Microsoft mandating #CensorBoot for #Windows11, thus generating.thousands of tons of 100% avoidable #eWaste in return!
October 14, 2025 = #EndofWindows10 updates, KDE’s 29th 
, and International #EWaste Day. You can’t make this up. Let’s #UpgradeToFreedom, not to landfills. Live talk #LinuxAppSummit #Linux #FOSS https://www.youtube.com/live/qV41qGMUrXY?si=2DUqVEfUFmwWNl5C
Oude laptop liggen? Geef ’m een tweede leven!
Die laptop te oud voor Windows-updates, te goed om weg te gooien?
Bij @LaptopRevive (onderdeel van de NLLGG) toveren we oude laptops om tot Linux-machines – en geven ze gratis aan studenten die er zelf geen kunnen betalen.
Zo help jij mee e-waste te verminderen én iemand vooruit in z’n studie of werk.
Meer info of meedoen? Check https://www.laptoprevive.nl
Tom's Hardware: Yesterday, Western Digital announced that it has created a large-scale hard disk drive recycling program in concert with Microsoft and recycling-industry partners CMR (Critical Materials Recycling) and PedalPoint Recycling. The new process reclaims Rare Earth Oxides (REO) containing dysprosium, neodymium, and praseodymium from hard drives, along with aluminum, steel, gold, palladium, and copper. The REO reclamation takes place completely within the U.S. and those materials go back into the U.S. market.
Dubbed the Advanced Recycling and Rare Earth Material Capture Program, WD’s initiative has already saved 47,000 pounds worth of hard drives, SSDs, and caddies from landfills or less-effective recycling programs. WD was able to achieve a more than 90% reclaim rate for REE and an 80% rate for all of the shredded material.
The drives came from Microsoft’s U.S. data centers where they were first shredded and then sent to PedalPoint for sorting and processing. Magnets and steel were then sent to CMR, which uses its acid-free dissolution recycling (ADR) technology to extract the rare earth elements.
Electronic Waste: Impact on Health, Animals, and the Environment ed. by Srijan Goswami et al, 2025
This book examines the detrimental impact of electronic waste on human health, animal welfare, and environmental ecosystems. The initial chapter discusses the sources, composition, and toxicity of electronic waste.
Chapter abstracts:
@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#EWaste
#ElectronicWaste
#pollution
@ascentale @InkySchwartz @bikenite That being said, there's also a reason why I own a $1200 ebike with a pretty generic Chinese motor and controller, and not a $7000 ebike with a proprietary Bosch or Yamaha system.
If my #ebike becomes effectively #ewaste, it's a lot less of a loss to me. I am one month shy of 3 years riding this bike, have not really noticed any battery degradation, yet, but I ride infrequently and for short distances, mostly.
From Gadgets to Garbage 
62 million metric tons of e-waste in 2022 — and only 22% was properly recycled. The rest? Landfills, illegal exports, or lost forever. It's about responsibility and sustainability.
Promote sustainable design + the Right to Repair Buy reused and refurbished Support ethical recycling
How do you approach this? Repairing more? Skipping upgrades? Buying refurbished?
#EWaste #Sustainability #CircularEconomy #RightToRepair #Recycle
https://blog.runbox.com/2025/04/from-gadgets-to-garbage-the-global-e-waste-crisis/
Think e-waste is just cheap, no-name junk? Think again. Major brands like Google, Amazon & Microsoft are killing support for devices in under 2 years—piling on 130+ million pounds of trash. @securesilient is working to fix.
#RightToRepair #EWaste #EOL
https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/electronic-waste-graveyard/
This pocket-sized PC is made from an old smartphone motherboard
You often hear that the phone in your pocket has more processing power than the room-sized computers that NASA used to help send astronauts to the moon. But modern smartphones also have relatively limited lifespans – while some device makers are doing a better job of offering long-term support, it’s often cheaper or easier to replace an old phone than it is to fix a cracked display or replace […]
#citronics #devKit #devkit #ewaste #fairphone #fairphone2 #recycling #sbc #upcycling
Read more: https://liliputing.com/this-pocket-sized-pc-is-made-from-an-old-smartphone-motherboard/
I'm convinced that the real innovation and the creativity necessary to survive the impending catastrophe will never come from places like Silicon Valley. It doesn't shine and it doesn't have world design conferences. It will come instead from the alleys of marketplaces, mostly (but not only) in the Global South.
India's repair and engineering culture, and Frankestein laptops
via @theverge
https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops
Dear fediverse,
what is the best resource of do's and dont's for setting up a #repaircafe ?
I guess not what I do with my own repairs : 40 boxes with half broken stuff from other people, waiting to find that single crucial part, schematic, or plans to fix it with a 3d printed part (to be designed and printed), actually converting my place in a #dumpsterdive without divers.
Neither desoldering all weird parts because weird parts are difficult to get...
#electronics #ewaste (...)
How to recycle your stuff in the UK
https://it-recycle.uk/
#Recycling #UK #eWaste #Waste #SolarPunkSunday
Eljo #MorpurgoMedia 
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