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Lima, Peru — June 2016
Just off Lima’s bustling Avenida Abancay lies a pedestrian-only byway called Leticia Street. It’s situated under a canopy of haphazardly strung electrical lines and flanked by once-brightly painted low slung buildings.
Many e-scrap recycling firms target gold and silver but send lower-value plastics elsewhere for disposal or recycling.
Not Canadian e-scrap recycling company FCM Recycling, which recently went into the e-plastics recycling business.
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Local governments play a central role in providing electronics recycling opportunities to citizens in North Carolina.
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Like most aspects of life, operating in the e-scrap world is more complex than it might first appear.
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We were down to the wire – and we knew it.