Comments on: Shop Talk: School District of Philadelphia launches probe into its computer recycling program

By: Technically Philly » Biggest tech community stories we covered in 2009 | Covering the Community of People Who Use Technology in Philadelphia.

Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:45:41 +0000

[...] e-waste landfill, we followed up with several updates. We reported first that the school district had ordered a probe into its computer recycling program. Budding reporter Stephen Zook, who was at the time attending classes in the African nation, filed [...]

By: Technically Philly » School District e-waste investigation three months later: no reported progress | Covering the Community of People Who Use Technology in Philadelphia.

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:14:49 +0000

[...] Ghana. The printer, spotted in a PBS Frontline documentary exposing the e-waste trend and first brought to the fore locally by Technically Philly, created a call to action that has yet to be [...]

By: Technically Philly » Friday Q&A: Gwen Shaffer, One Web Day organizer | Covering the Community of People Who Use Technology in Philadelphia.

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:31:50 +0000

[...] kind of incentive for companies to give away computers to be refurbished rather than recycle them [See our coverage of the school district's e-waste problem]. Maybe they’d even have employees who’d want to [...]

By: School District of Philadelphia to probe computer recycling program | EPC's Computer Recyling Blog

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:06:41 +0000

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By: Technically Philly » Technically Philly makes brief appearance on Fox 29 | Covering the Community of People Who Use Technology in Philadelphia.

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:30:45 +0000

[...] the School District of Philadelphia said in a statement to Technically Philly yesterday that it was investigating how one of its computer peripherals ended up in a landfill in Ghana, Fox [...]

By: Geekadelphia » Blog Archive » Chris Wink of Technically Philly Appears on Fox News

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:47:40 +0000

[...] Chris Wink and Technically Philly wrote up a pretty wild story, about how computers from the Philadelphia School District popped up in a massive e-waste landfill in Ghana. Give it a read, check out the videos. It’s [...]

By: On The Mean Streets Of Frankford You Might Overhear Discussions On the Geopolitical Implications Of Corporate E-Waste « The Frankford Gazette

Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:06:00 +0000

[...] 10 PM broadcast last night discussing a piece he did for his startup Technically Philly about how old computers from the School District of Philadelphia ended up in trash heaps in Africa instead….� It has the makings of a scandal.� But not only is it impressive that this young freelance [...]