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2 août 2021 Can you recycle a hard drive? Google is quietly trying to find out. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known as the magnet assembly.

2 août 2021 Can you recycle a hard drive? Google is quietly trying to find out

Consisting of two powerful rare earth magnets, the magnet assembly is a critical muscle within the hard drive, controlling an actuator arm that allows the device to read and write data. Over the course of six weeks, the scientists harvested 6,100 of these magnetic muscles, all of them effectively good as new. The magnets were then shipped to a hard drive manufacturing facility in Thailand, where they were placed into new drives and, eventually, redeployed to data centers around the world.

This is a far cry from what happens to the estimated 22 million hard disk drives that age out of North American data centers each year. But for several years, Google and others in the tech industry have been quietly working to change that. 7 avr. 2021 Apple finally admits its products are difficult to repair. At the start of the year, the French government began requiring makers of smartphones and laptops to assign their products a “repairability” score based on how easy they are to fix — a first-of-its-kind governmental requirement with potentially global implications.

7 avr. 2021 Apple finally admits its products are difficult to repair

Now, leading consumer technology brands including Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft have started to comply with the law by grading their products in French. And you don’t have to be a Francophone to see that the grades are, well, pretty lackluster. Apple, the world’s most valuable consumer tech company, was unable to give any of its iPhones or MacBooks a repair score higher than 7 out of 10, making it a C student at best by the company’s own math. Stop Using Aluminum Foil Now and What to Use Instead – Mama Instincts® If you’re like most people, you grew up using aluminum foil.

Stop Using Aluminum Foil Now and What to Use Instead – Mama Instincts®

Your mom used it for cooking, to wrap your sandwiches for school and to store left-overs at home. You probably still use aluminum foil in your home because it’s so versatile. Can Used Aluminum Foil Be Recycled? Aluminum foil is a staple in most modern kitchens.

Can Used Aluminum Foil Be Recycled?

Pliable and easily manipulated, it’s a favorite first choice for wrapping everything from a potato to a casserole dish. Foil is also often used in disposable packaging thanks to its ability to act as a total barrier against light and oxygen. Autocollant "Pub Non Merci" : dites Stop à la Pub dans votre boîte aux lettres - Je protège ma planète. This entire Buddhist temple complex is made from recycled beer bottles.

This is Wat Lan Kuad, the Temple of a Million Bottles.

This entire Buddhist temple complex is made from recycled beer bottles

And they’re being modest. By now, the temple complex is up to 1.5 million bottles. The monks responsible for this epic of recycling started gathering bottles on their own and later asked local leaders to add to their stash. This is the longest 100 percent recycled bridge in the country. This is the Onion Ditch Bridge in Logan County, Ohio.

This is the longest 100 percent recycled bridge in the country

It’s made of 100 percent recycled materials — detergent and shampoo bottles, car bumpers, dashboards. In fact, it’s the longest recycled bridge in the country. Oxialive, le télécran façon Bigbrother à Dijon ! - Dlareg Blog. Les voitures se cachent pour mourir… (ou comment les allemands planquent les voitures pour ne pas faire baisser les prix)

Obsolescence programmée

Société de consommation. Les questions des auditeurs. The Good Consumer - VOSTFR. The Corporation. Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre.

The Corporation

The Corporation, sorti en 2003, est un film documentaire canadien réalisé par Jennifer Abbott (en) et Mark Achbar. Ce film est basé sur le livre The corporation, the pathological pursuit of profit and power (Les Multinationales, la recherche pathologique du profit et du pouvoir) de Joel Bakan (en). Le film est divisé en trois parties, reprenant les trois parties du titre du livre. Synopsis[modifier | modifier le code] Ce documentaire montre l'évolution des "Sociétés anonymes" (appelées Corporations en anglais) aux États-Unis, reprenant leur histoire depuis leur apparition avec la Révolution industrielle, où elles étaient conçues pour répondre au bien public mais furent détournées de cet objectif par la recherche du profit.

À l'issue de la Guerre de Sécession, la Constitution des États-Unis est amendée pour accorder aux Noirs les mêmes droits qu'aux Blancs. Qui est responsable ? La publicité au berceau[modifier | modifier le code] Story of Stuff. The Story of Stuff, originally released in December 2007, is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns.

Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the Stuff in your life forever. Download the Fact Sheet. Les opérateurs mobiles français espèrent se refaire une santé avec l'iPhone 5.

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