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The recycling initiative recovers 90% of rare earths from data center hard drives

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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Right after china said it won’t export those? What a coincidence.

[–] graymess@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

It's objectively a good thing that at least some of the vast amounts of e-waste out there is getting repurposed, but it's also funny as fuck that US tech companies are already in scavenger mode over China's halted exports.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

A good way to reduce ewaste would be to not make people have to buy new computers

[–] astrsk@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hopefully they accept the drives with holes drilled in them.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

I mean you can add the metal shavings to the shipping box.