End Of Life is a photo series about items that were once used daily, momentarily indispensable to the people that owned them. Even though we have no way of knowing who their owners were, we can imagine that they were part of someone’s landscape, in their home and daily life. These objects gathered from an Ontario E-waste facility are tools: they filled a role and performed a function until they either broke or were replaced. This series of images is a final send-off—an obituary of sorts—before these objects are disassembled, shredded, and harvested for materials.
Analogue Mobile Phone: Graphite, Copper, Aluminum
Keyboards: Tantalum, Silver, Plastic
Clothing Iron: Copper, Tin, Lead, Plastic
CD Player: Palladium, Neodymium, Plastic
Flip Phones: Graphite, Plastic, Aluminum
Baby Monitor: Neodymium, Nickel, Copper
Dot-Matrix Printer: Gold, Silver, Copper
Clock: Gallium, Silver, Tin, Lead
Home Phones: Neodymium, Copper, Graphite
Digital Picture Frame: Gallium, Silver, Palladium
Portable Stereo: Copper, Neodymium, Nickel
Printing Calculator: Silver, Tin, Lead, Tantalum
Tablets: Indium, Silver, Terbium and Dysprosium
Flip Phone with Keyboard: Tin, Lead, Tungsten, Aluminum
Video Camera: Graphite, Copper, Aluminum
Toy Guitar: Nickel, Gold, Plastic
Smartphone: Indium, Aluminosilicate Glass, Terbium and Dysprosium
Headphones: Neodymium, Tin, Lead, Tantalum
Tape Recorder: Copper, Neodymium, Nickel
Webcams: Plastic, Copper, Silver
Learn more about recycling your previously loved electronics here.
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Presented by Recycle My Electronics
