Electronics recycling – Aladdin’s Cave

By Lauren Williams | October 8, 2025

Electronics recycling opens Aladdin’s Cave: according to this US Environmental Protection Agency report, a million cellphones yield 35,000 pounds of copper and multiple other recovered resources. I’m on this hunt because I’m plotting a Great Race to bounce between clients and a disposal run on Friday. PCs for People, which used to be Interconnection, is…

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Plated Imperfection

By Lauren Williams | May 4, 2021

I like to cook. I enjoy food’s presentation, known as “plating.” And I agree with Voltaire, who wrote “Perfect is the enemy of the good.” A client recently let me have an adorable plant stand  – one less thing for the poor client to dispose of. It matches a planter, probably once a stair rail,…

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