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Oregon Right to Repair Law Trivia

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Topic: New Legislation
Author: OSPIRG
Title: Guide: How to use your Right to Repair in Oregon
Takeaway: "This law ensures access to the parts, tools, information, and software access needed to repair electronic devices, keeping them in use and out of the landfill."

Topic: Tech & Business
Author: Chemical & Engineering News
Title: Electronic waste is a gold mine waiting to be tapped
Takeaway: "And that trash contains treasure. Metals made up half the world’s electronic trash, or e-waste, in 2022 and were worth $91 billion."

Topic: Climate Resilience
Author: NPR
Title: Stunning photos of a vast e-waste dumping ground—and those who make a living off it
Takeaway: "For years, a site called Agbogbloshie in Accra was one of the largest e-waste processing sites in Africa, getting 15,000 tons of discarded phones, computers and other used electronics each year."

Topic: Government Reports
Author: PIRG
Title: 6 surprising facts from the UN's 2024 electronic waste report
Takeaway: “We can’t recycle our way out from under the mountains of electronic waste we’re making when only 22% of global electronic waste is recycled. Our social norms of buying, using, and tossing phones, laptops, and other electronics can’t continue at this rate."

Topic: Innovations
Author: The Guardian
Title: After Brewing Beer, Yeast Can Help Recycle Metals from E-waste
Takeaway: "When the study authors added brewer’s yeast, a single-cell fungus, to a watery solution of mixed metals, they noticed the yeast could isolate and take up specific metals—and be reused at least five times without losing binding strength."

Electronics Resources


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Have more resources about this topic you want us to add to the list? Drop us a line at [email protected].

ECycleOregon
https://ecycleoregon.org

Electronics Recycling Competition
wastewiselane.org/erc

FiX iT Lane County
fixitlanecounty.com

Guide to Used Goods in Eugene/Springfield
rogenemanas.com/guide-to-used-goods

iFixit
ifixit.com

NextStep Recycling
nextsteprecycling.org

Waste Wise Lane County App 
lanecountyor.gov/wastewise-app
 

Posted by LCPWDJH On 31 December, 2024 at 2:07 PM  

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