The concern with the sustainability of the planet is increasingly present; with her, it encourages the creation of ways to preserve natural resources and reuse materials, like recycling. Within this universe of solutions, we can also cite meta-recycling as one of the most effective and that has been ensuring transformations that go far beyond caring for the environment..
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Meta-recycling is, actually, an organized network whose main objective is the deconstruction of technology so that it can be reused and used again, with other functions, in favor of communities and social transformation.
It was created by a group of people who form the Meta:Out and who joined with the NGO citizen agent to make it all happen. The team works by gathering computers and other electronic equipment that have been discarded. After a review, the group starts using its parts and everything that works to set up new computer labs.
How meta-recycling works and what is its importance today
these laboratories, created from what would go to waste, receive free license software and are open to the community, teaching not only how to use the internet and familiarity with these equipment, but also a new way of seeing garbage and the reuse of materials.
The most interesting thing about this event, which is called meta-recycling, is that it is a movement that takes place from the bottom up and is always open to receive new people interested in the project., including companies, individuals and non-governmental organizations.
For this reason, meta-recycling, even working with something as important as the reuse of junk mail, does not have fixed offices or formal addresses. The laboratories are developed in such a way as to fully integrate with the places where they are planned and become a constant part of the lives of those people.
The e-waste meta-recycling network is, therefore, an entirely Brazilian initiative that fully meets the needs of the population that needs it and the search for digital and social inclusion that this experience is capable of providing.
More awareness with e-waste management
In addition to all the difference that attitudes like the metalanguage network make in the personal life of everyone who lives in these places, this type of project also raises serious issues related to e-waste disposal and management..
In the big cities, both in people's homes and in companies, the use of technology and its equipment is widespread. But when they become obsolete, the devices are just thrown away, often still in use condition, in inappropriate places that end up wasting their reuse and generating even more pollution.
That is why, It is important for society as a whole to become increasingly aware of the management of electronic waste, investing or just being part of networks such as meta-recycling. in the end, most of the time, what is considered total garbage for some may be what was needed to transform the lives of others into something better.
Original content available on the website environmental dynamics. We made a series of posts about waste, access here, the first of the series: integrated solid waste management.