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Hip Deep: A Look at Electronics Recovery
Mike Donoghue is a member of a multinational information technology corporation where he collaborates on the communications guidelines and customer relationship strategies affecting the interactions with internal and external clients. He has analyzed, defined, designed and overseen processes for various engagements including product usability and customer satisfaction, best practice enterprise standardization, relationship/branding structures, and distribution effectiveness and direction. He has also established corporate library solutions to provide frameworks for sales, marketing, training, and support divisions.
The business of trash has always been a good one. Earlier generations knew the value of recycling before it became trendy and profitable. Empires and countries have come and gone (along with their buildings), but local industrious peoples have proven themselves capable of rebuilding around older edifices or simply removing the components and using them to create their own structures. Even those armies of conquest from long ago have left little behind--in some cases as nearby citizens swarmed in after battles and quickly retrieved items and materials that could be sold or refurbished to suit the needs of more common folk.
These are standards that are hard to live up to. Within the past 20 years, the increased use of electronics-based products has grown tremendously in terms of how we entertain ourselves, communicate with others, manufacture and produce goods, and support the very infrastructure we have made for our world. Our reliance and dependence on electronics is no less than staggering, with households in the United States having on average no less than 24 electronic products under one roof according to the Consumer Electronics Association.
While the problem is highly noticeable in the United States, it is hardly restricted to that country. Industrialized nations of the world are also finding it difficult to deal with the steady increase in electronics products and the …
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