Watch: How one entrepreneur turns e-waste into jobs for the formerly incarcerated | Fix

<h1>Watch: How one entrepreneur turns e-waste into jobs for the formerly incarcerated</h1>
 
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If you’ve ever had to dispose of an old electronic, you know it’s not a simple chuck-and-duck. Phones, computers, TVs, and other gadgets are full of metals and other materials that would be <a href="https://new-grist-preprod.go-vip.net/living/investigation-reveals-where-our-e-waste-ends-up-and-it-aint-good/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">dangerous to dump</a> in a landfill. Finding a responsible avenue for recycling them isn’t always easy, either.

Enter <a href="https://www.techdump.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tech Dump</a>, a nonprofit run by <a href="https://new-grist-preprod.go-vip.net/grist-50/2021/#amanda-lagrange" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amanda LaGrange</a>, a recent honoree of our annual <a href="https://new-grist-preprod.go-vip.net/grist-50/2021" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Grist 50</a> list. Her org employs formerly incarcerated people, who are trained in the business of recycling and repurposing millions of pounds of electronics each year. And with its retail arm, <a href="https://techdiscounts.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tech Discounts</a>, that old tech can find a new life.

This year’s <a href="https://new-grist-preprod.go-vip.net/grist-50/2021" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Grist 50</a> features five short documentaries on innovators like LaGrange: emerging leaders — we call them Fixers — who are tackling climate and justice from every imaginable angle. Check out this video to see LaGrange and her tech-recycling team in action.

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