Word: weee
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...gotten farther on my thesis conclusion that day, but I felt accomplished knowing that I had figured out that one.Of course, we don’t always get the satisfaction of deciphering Shaq’s tweets, like when he asked for help identifying the song “weee weee wha weee weee wha weee wee weeee.” Shaq, I spent a good portion of my afternoon Googling multiple versions of those lyrics, singing them at different pitches and speeds, and even contemplating the significance behind the number...
...London's bustling South Bank, the WEEE Man has risen. The creation of designer Paul Bonomini, the 7-m-tall humanoid figure - which looks like a menacing mechanical skeleton escaped from some Tim Burton movie - weighs 3 tons and is made of 553 pieces of electrical and electronic waste, including 95 small household appliances (such as vacuum cleaners, toasters and irons), 55 larger consumer items (TVs, video and DVD players, camcorders), 35 pieces of computer and mobile-phone equipment, 12 washing machines, 10 refrigerators and six microwave ovens...
...That's roughly the amount of electronic equipment a typical young Briton will throw away over a 78-year lifetime. The sculpture, commissioned by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) to draw attention to the European Union's Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) initiative, is meant to personalize and quantify the impact of a single person's gadgets on the environment. Currently, 90% of discarded electronics goes into landfills or is incinerated. Some of this waste contains lead, phosphor and barium, which have been linked to organ damage and other illnesses...
...WEEE Man is part of an effort by activists to promote what they call "ecological footprinting": calculating the amount of resources we each consume to supply our needs. Pioneered in 1996 by regional planners Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees, the measurement takes into account the production of food, housing, transportation, consumer goods and services, as well as the waste that's left behind. According to WWF, each person should currently have an average footprint of 1.8 hectares, the rough equivalent of two soccer fields, for the supply of his or her needs. But WWF estimates that the average stomping ground...
...main culprits. About 220 million electrical products are released onto the British market alone each year. As demand for such goods increases in places like China and India, global e-waste could explode, Holdway warns. The E.U. says it's addressing the problem through its 2003 WEEE directive, which requires producers to pay for the collection of equipment and to meet targets for recycling, reuse and recovery...