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Most of us grew up with the Environmental Protection Agency’s friendly “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” motto, but when it comes to gadgets, being environmentally responsible isn’t quite so easy.

That’s because electronics are neither easy for manufacturers to create nor simple for recyclers to disassemble. On top of that, laws on handling e-waste are inconsistent between countries, states and even cities. Long story short, the biggest problem with recycling gadgets is it’s confusing as hell for consumers.

But it really doesn’t have to be. Below, Gadget Lab rounds up a list of major companies and how their recycling programs work, so your next useless cellphone doesn’t end up taking up space in a drawer or leaching toxics into a landfill. We’ll start with the easiest stuff first and then move on to the more complicated gadgets.

Useful wiki from the folks at Wired on how to recycle your used electronics.

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Reason for for detention:
Another student made the comment “you need to push it in further” (innocent comment) and Dalton added “That’s what she said.”

Well done, Mr. Duncan! I approve.

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I present to you, dear readers, BALE-entines featuring the pictures of the yummy Christian Bale and quotes from his Batman movies. Just remember to say the copy in that hoarsely unsexy Batman growl.

Thanks to a lazy Google image search, a leading Polish newspaper erroneously claimed that despicable Internet meme Pedobear was one of the mascots of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. But that’s not the first time the pervy bear has fooled the gatekeepers of reality and made its way into the real world.

via geekosystem.com