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## Introduction

Every day 28k tons of single-use plastic finds its way into the world’s oceans, ~86k dump trucks full of used or discarded clothing are either burned or dropped in a landfill, and [~109k tons](https://www.theworldcounts.com/stories/electronic-waste-facts) of used electronics (the weight equivalent of ~68m laptops) are discarded.

Left unchecked, that would certainly spell environmental disaster, but it can also spell something else — big business opportunities.

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