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Ep. 158 - Tony Selvaggio: Recycling Old Tech to Make Computer Labs for Kids

Broadcast on:
05 May 2023

Tony Selvaggio is a Social Entrepreneur and the Founder of eSmart Recycling, a social enterprise whose primary goal is to recycle old technology to set up computer labs for kids, worldwide. It turns out that all kids need to be competitive in today’s digital world is some Betamax tapes, a few laserdiscs, and a few old paddle’s from the 1972 version of Pong. Alright, maybe it’s not quite that, but the point is that a e-waste is an enormous problem, and tons of viable tech ends up in landfills or collecting dust in ole’ granny’s broom closet, when it could be used to give kids without access to computers a leg up.

➡️ https://www.esmartrecycling.com/

➡️ Highlights: https://rosspalmer.com/tony-selvaggio