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Dark skies, bright future: overcoming Nigeria’s e-waste epidemic
UN Environment: "It’s close to midnight on a Sunday and the skies of Lagos hang dark over the glittering lights of the city’s 17.5 million residents. One of those lights is small fire in a field in Ikeja, the capital of Lagos State, where 24-year-old John stands,...
CNN: Tokyo 2020 unveils Olympic medals made from old electronics
"The winners' medals for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were revealed Wednesday, exactly one year before the event's opening ceremony. And they feature an unlikely design quirk: The medals will be made using old cellphones and other electronics. Selected following a...
Wharton: How U.S. Laws Do (and Don’t) Support E-Recycling and Reuse
"There is no U.S. federal law that requires the recycling of electronic waste or prohibits it from being exported to developing countries. Some in Congress have tried to pass a bill that would make the overseas dumping of toxic e-waste illegal, but the Responsible...
What Really Happens to AirPods When They Die
"AirPod owners love them. Everyone else, it can seem, hates them. Apple is, by all indications, selling oodles of them. But what happens to AirPods when they get old and die? Does the same seamless design that helped to make them iconic also make them an environmental...
E-Scrap News: Negligence causes 25 percent of data breaches
"A recent data security study shows a quarter of U.S. data breaches are caused by human error. Breaches are also increasing in frequency and costing companies more to manage. The 2018 Cost of a Data Breach Study, completed by Ponemon Institute and funded by IBM, found...
EScrap News: Survey highlights public data security concerns
"More than a quarter of consumers are so concerned that data on their old mobile phones might be compromised that they wouldn’t trade in the devices, according to a survey. Blancco Technology Group, which provides data erasure and diagnostic equipment and...
Less Than 3% of Recycled Computing Devices Properly Wiped
"Researchers find that companies that refurbish or accept old equipment as donations don't necessarily clean them of data as promised. Here's some eyepopping data about the computing devices that wind up at businesses that refurbish computers or accept donated...
Save the Date! Palm Beach Police Recycling Event April 16
Join us in this fabulous opportunity to protect your information - both electronic and hard copy! Call us for more information, or reach out to us at [email protected]
What is Charitable ITAD, and how can you participate?
What is ITAD? ITAD is Information Technology Asset Disposition or Information Technology Asset Disposal. Charitable ITAD is when these assets are donated and put to good use. When faced with excess or outdated IT equipment, many organizations consider donating...
Memory for Memory at Alzheimer’s Luncheon
Chris, our CEO, and Craig, our warehouse supervisor, attended the Alzheimer's Community Care luncheon today in Palm Beach, FL. The theme of the lunch was "Hello Spring," signifying the hope and new life that comes with community support for Alzheimer's patients and...
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KSAT: Children’s book helps families introduce Alzheimer’s disease to kids
SAN ANTONIO - Jim McDonough and his wife loved to watch the buzzards in their North Side neighborhood. "They would circle around and wouldn't flap their wings and she was fascinated by that," he recalled. "We had to give their leader a name, and that was Barney...
Medical XPress: High-energy lasers could be used to treat Alzheimer’s disease in the future
"Amyloid fibrils are a type of self-assembled proteins/peptides that take on a stacked sheet-like formation. Amyloid fibril aggregates are known to be a cause of several diseases—including Alzheimer's—and therefore, it is of immense scientific interest to understand...
Runner’s World: Even a Small Boost in Exercise Can Help Protect You From Alzheimer’s
"You know that exercise is important for keeping your body healthy as you age, but more and more research suggests it plays a role in keeping your mind sharp, too. It may even help protect against Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive brain disorder marked by memory...
Column: Fighting the ravages of Alzheimer’s and dementia with the beauty of baseball
"It starts with a baseball. Each person who attends the monthly BasebALZ program in a conference room at the offices of Alzheimer’s Los Angeles is handed one, faded and scuffed. For the next two hours, those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of...
TIME: These Non-Drug Methods Could Help People With Alzheimer’s Disease, Study Suggests
"While there are no drugs that can treat Alzheimer’s disease and reverse the memory and thinking problems it causes, a new study shows that some non-drug strategies may help to improve cognitive skills in some people with the illness. About 25% of people in the world...
Alzheimer’s affects women more than men. Now scientists have some clues as to why
"New research offers some biological clues to why women may be more likely than men to develop Alzheimer’s disease, and how this most common form of dementia varies by sex. At the Alzheimer’s Assn. International Conference in Los Angeles on Tuesday, scientists offered...
Researchers Discover Brain Molecule, VPS35, Can Clear Alzheimer’s Tau Tangles
"For the first time, researchers have determined that a molecule called VPS35 can clear tau proteins, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease, in the brain. That’s according to a new study published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry. Think of the molecule VPS35 as a...
What we’re learning about animal memories could help us crack Alzheimer’s
"For almost as long as modern science has been around, the idea that animals can remember past experiences seemed so preposterous that few researchers bothered to study it. Surely only humans, with our big, sophisticated brains, could be capable of “episodic”...
New Markers For Alzheimer’s Disease Could Aid Diagnosis And Speed Up Drug Development
"Alzheimer's disease begins altering the brain long before it affects memory and thinking. So scientists are developing a range of tests to detect these changes in the brain, which include an increase in toxic proteins, inflammation and damage to the connections...
Forks Over Knives: What’s the Best Diet to Prevent Alzheimer’s?
"The number of people with Alzheimer’s disease is expected to jump from 5.7 million in 2018 to 14 million by 2050. There is no known cure. Although there is much research to be done on this disease, studies have shown that certain foods are beneficial to the brain and...
