INNOVATION BY DESIGN
Sep 09, 2019
3 minutes
TYPOGRAPHY BY CHELSEA SCHIFF
PHOTOGRAPH BY
DAN FORBES
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Suzanne LaBarre
after we’re done with them? About 70% of the world’s discarded electronics are not recycled, and much of the waste is illegally shipped to developing countries, where poor workers—many of them children—mine the contraptions for precious metals under dangerous, unregulated conditions. Ore Streams, one of this year’s Innovation by Design (IBD) honorees, proposes a novel use for all those old phones and laptops:
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