{"id":2369,"date":"2021-03-03T23:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=2369"},"modified":"2021-03-03T23:30:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T23:30:07","slug":"recycling-old-smartphones-is-not-only-good-for-the-environment-it-is-a-potentially-lucrative-business-for-e-waste-companies-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=2369","title":{"rendered":"Recycling old smartphones is not only good for the environment \u2013 it is a potentially lucrative business for e-waste companies in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostLike many Chinese millennials, 24-year-old Lin Chenru likes to upgrade his mobile phone every couple of years \u2013 just don\u2019t ask him where his old devices are.\u201cI think they\u2019re still in my room, but I don\u2019t know exactly where,\u201d Lin said. \u201cI don\u2019t throw away my old phones when I get a new one but as time goes by, I don\u2019t pay much attention to it.\u201dThe reason Lin, and most consumers, hang on to retired phones is usually because there is still data stored on the old handset. \u201cI keep them in case there\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3123924\/recycling-old-smartphones-not-only-good-environment-it-potentially\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: South China Morning PostLike many Chinese millennials, 24-year-old Lin Chenru likes to upgrade his mobile phone every couple of years \u2013 just don\u2019t ask him where his old devices&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}