[Wolves] Re: redundant technlogy references required

[vincenzo]

sparkes asked ...

> a2rt suggest 3 million a year on the donations page, lowtech.org sugges=
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> million on home page and 2300 per day (~840,000 pa) in the faq. Has any=
one
> got access to any recent facts about this please.=20

with the 3 million we were going on what a friend who works in the=20
Sustainability department for B'ham City Council said - although in a rat=
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slack manner I've taken his word for it & not checked any further - I do=20
however know that those sections of lowtech.org haven't been updated for =
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two years - so I'm pretty certain that 1 million pa is now out of date

another figure that I've come across is that "Last year alone 24,000 tonn=
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computer equipment was disposed of in the UK" which is on the urban mines=
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website=20

http://www.urbanmines.org.uk/elc.htm=20

but again they don't say what their source is . . .

other than that I haven't come across any proper statistics (don't know a=
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demographic breakdowns either) sorry I can't be any more help - let us kn=
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if you find any reliable stats though

Si Vinnie