I always enjoy this Youtube channel, if only because the Alaska tundra reminds me a lot of Dolly Sods in West Virginia with the lack of trees and harsh conditions. Alaska and the tundra are some great country.
Jim Puckett got the messages from his “little lie detectors.” They were small devices, not much bigger than a deck of cards. Being GPS trackers, they also didn’t look much like actual lie detectors. For years, as the head of the Basel Action Network, Puckett and his team have been throwing them in the trash.
Electronics can be hazardous when disposed of improperly, and the Basel Action Network, or BAN, investigates the underground world of the e-waste trade. The nonprofit group secretly embeds trackers in discarded devices, then hands them to recyclers to see where they end up, exposing bad practices in the process. After dropping bugged LCD monitors in Oregon, they followed along as the trackers traced a circuitous route through the summer of 2015 and into the fall.
Read more on the The Dark Side of Electronic Waste Recycling on the Verge.
Last week out hiking along the rail trail as the snow really started to come down.