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December 2016

Published: January 10, 2017
Updated:
January 23, 2017January 10, 2017
by Editorial Staff

Features from the December 2016 print edition:

  • Electronics reuse and recycling in Peru, a photographic journey
  • Insights on OCC
  • Lifting more than recycling rates
  • Study up
  • The safe way is the only way

 

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  • #ESC2025 Speaker Spotlight: David Daoud

    Born and raised in Algeria, David Daoud took an unlikely route to the world of electronics recycling. Having trained as an oil and gas engineer, he swapped desert heat for Boston snow in 1990, earning a master’s in international economics and eventually finding his way into data analysis at Harvard.


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