A retired laptop is less like rubbish and more like a tiny, dusty treasure chest with a broken hinge. Old phones, computers, tablets, servers, routers, monitors, printers, and assorted mystery cables may look like the leftovers of modern life, but many of them contain materials that took serious mining, processing, transport, and energy to produce. When these devices are shoved into drawers or dumped incorrectly, useful resources are left stranded.
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