With over 2 million tons of “e-waste” per year in the USA alone, it is apparent that high technology has an environmental impact. It is enough to make almost any environmentalist cringe, but there is hope. I have recently observed and read about several different positive improvements to high tech environmental impacts. They boil down to materials and efficiencies.
In the realm of materials there have been massive quantities of difficult to recycle (but not impossible, see resources at the bo...