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This Sliding Bar can be switched on or off in theme options, and can take any widget you throw at it or even fill it with your custom HTML Code. Its perfect for grabbing the attention of your viewers. Choose between 1, 2, 3 or 4 columns, set the background color, widget divider color, activate transparency, a top border or fully disable it on desktop and mobile.
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Computer Composting

Computer Composting (Financial Post, October 1995) "I don't know much about computers, but one thing I do know is how to smash them up," says Adam Freedman, introducing his father's computer recycling business Hi Tech Recycling. The idea to recycle unusable computer parts came to Adam's father, Max Freedman as a result of his once-a-week volunteer work in a Toronto-based project that refurbishes outdated PCs for people who need retraining. "This first year I put in money to keep going, the second year we broke even." This year, with the business savvy of his son who is actually a business consultant, Freedman says he might even make money and hire some help. Max who retired from a career in electronics, operates out of an industrial building in Toronto. The warehouse is littered with boxes of circuit boards, precision electric motors, old hand-drives and tape units. On one side are the hulking ports of old mainframes and minicomputers. Nearby is a pile of old monitors.
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Where old computers go to die

Where old computers go to die (Toronto Star, January 1, 2001) Some are recycled, but many are tossed into landfills, raising environmental issues The noise is deafening. The grinding of metal on metal, the whirring of fans, the spinning of belts. This is the modern slaughterhouse of technology. Computers, cell phones and fax machines come here to die. Everything is shredded and automatically sorted by weight and composition. Video cameras capture the last moments of each machine as it enters the shredders. "We can shred a photocopier into pieces the size of a guitar pick," says Sid Morris as he gives me a tour of Electronic Product Recycling Services Inc., the recycling plant where he works.
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Discarded computers hazardous in landfill

Discarded computers hazardous in landfill (Globe and Mail, October 10, 2001) If not recycled, substances in old monitors and circuits end up fouling air and water Eli Freedman has a good view of where old computers are sent to die. He helps operate one of Canada's largest recyclers of used computer equipment, trying to salvage the scrap metals they contain and prevent their hazardous components from polluting the environment. Every work day, about 300 to 500 computers get ripped apart at his Toronto company to recover their metals, such as copper, aluminum and silver, worth from $1.50 to $2.50 per junked machine. "Basically, we strip them," said Mr. Freedman, vice-president of Hi-Tech Recycling (Canada) Ltd. "It's intense, manual labour."
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New life for hi-tech junk

New life for hi-tech junk (Toronto Sun, August 25, 1999) Look up the word 'obsolete' in the dictionary and you'll probably find a picture of your computer. In this fast-forward age of constant change, it sometimes seems nothing becomes worthless faster than your humble desktop computer. A fortune today, a boat anchor tomorrow, you might say. The Freedman family in North York couldn't be happier about that sad fact of life. To them, hi-tech junk is cash. The Freedmans, dad Max, sons Adam, Eli, David and various uncles are the modern-day version of the scrap yard. Hardly surprising since Grandpa Freedman ran an auto wreckers in his time in Detroit.
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