Hey, it's Manouche, the host of New Text City, and these days, the holidays are filled

with gifts of unnecessary electronics.

Who needs that cell phone from last year?

And in that spirit, we bring you a show about...waste.

And actually, we've got a few ways to prevent waste, to harness those leftovers of all

stripes.

And the steam in your radiators, to broken cell phones, will even follow the path of a discarded

TV to see where it takes us.

The main contents that we try to take all first is the aluminum, battery, and you can see

like some of the platinum.

This is, after all, New Text City, a place where we want to upgrade to the newest phone,

but we also recognize that that might not be the best thing for the environment.

How to reconcile that.

We haven't had before.

Well, once in a while, I get invited to interview smart people with big, important titles,

or formerly important titles.

Good to see you.

You too.

That's me hanging out with Al Gore, at the Mashable Social Good Summit, a little while

back.

He was there giving a hopeful speech about technology, and democracy, and the planet.

And I figured he must have some good ideas on how to love the earth and technology at the

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