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Where Our Cell Phones Go When We Recycle Them

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4645 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week we talk to Adam Minter, author of “Secondhand,” about the end-of-life supply chain for our cell phones, computers, and all the other stuff we keep in our houses.

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0:00.0

Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.

0:10.7

It's a unit system.

0:13.1

I know this.

0:15.1

It's all the files of the whole park.

0:17.3

It tells her everything.

0:19.0

Sir, he's uploading the virus.

0:21.8

Eagle one.

0:22.6

The package is being delivered.

0:25.7

Hey, everyone.

0:26.7

This is Motherboard Editor-in-Chief, Jason Kebler.

0:29.1

I'm filling in for Ben this week.

0:30.9

He's on vacation.

0:32.2

Went to a foreign country yet again.

0:34.9

Good for Ben.

0:36.6

We talk a lot of motherboard about supply chain. Supply chain attacks,

0:41.0

human labor and resource use, shipments all around the world, and its environmental effects.

0:47.1

But we talk less often about the second supply chain that happens when we get rid of our electronics.

0:53.4

Today, we're going inside that end-of-life supply chain

0:56.8

to discuss how our electronics are recycled, repaired, reused, and resold all around the world.

1:08.1

Hey, so this is Jason Kebler. I'm filling in for Ben Makou. I am talking here to Adam Minter,

1:14.4

who is the author of Second Hand, an awesome new book out on Bloomsbury publishing. And he's also the

1:21.7

author of Junkyard, Junkyard Planet. I was going to say Junkyard America, but I knew that it was a worldwide book,

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