e-waste

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National Volunteer Week 2025

Alan Liefting

June 21, 2025

Today is the end of National Volunteer Week 2025. Ecotech Services would like to thank…
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Digitor A9734

Alan Liefting

June 15, 2025

This is today’s egregious failure of cheap and poor quality goods, in the case a…
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Dishonest manufacturing

Alan Liefting

May 4, 2024

This no name powerbank with solar charging came in for recycling and it is anything…
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Visione DVD player

Alan Liefting

October 6, 2022

A Visione VISDVD5820 DVD player came in for recycling and since it has a HDMI…
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A waste of time

Alan Liefting

November 25, 2020

These brand new mains cables came in for recycling. Not only was it a waste…
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Techweek

Alan Liefting

May 11, 2017

This week is Techweek, an annual talkfest here in New Zealand about the future of…
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Moore’s Law for corporate computer repair

Alan Liefting

March 18, 2017

Given the amount of stuff coming through for recycling from our corporate clients this pretty…
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A throwaway society

Alan Liefting

March 1, 2017

We really are in a throwaway society. We have been calling it that since the…
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e-terminology

Alan Liefting

October 8, 2016

I am a bit pedantic about words and I sometimes find the English language a…
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McDonald’s Princess Bubblegum Happymeal toy and e-waste

Alan Liefting

August 21, 2016

This is a packet from a McDonald’s Princess Bubblegum Happymeal toy: It had blown off…