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This e-waste evangelist got into a battle involving Microsoft - and is going to prison for it

Brunhuber, Kim
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ewaste-recycling-computer-discs-1.4670985

Publisher:  CBC News
Date Written:  02/06/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

Recycling entrepreneur pleaded guilty, sentenced for copyright infringement dealing with computer discs.

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Eric Lundgren lifts a cardboard box over his head and dumps out the contents. Hundreds of computer discs cascade onto the floor of his warehouse on the outskirts of Los Angeles.

Lundgren, an e-waste evangelist, says the discs he's dumping on the floor were meant to save thousands of laptops from the landfill. Instead, they landed him in the middle of a court fight involving a tech titan and, ultimately, in prison after he pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic in counterfeit goods and criminal copyright infringement.

"I fought this battle as long and as hard as I could," Lundgren says. "But I'm fighting a giant. And ... there's no winning when you go up against Microsoft."

Lundgren is a 33-year-old recycling entrepreneur. Every year, the company he founded, iT Asset Partners, buys about 19 million kilograms of old electronics and recycles them.

At one of the company's facilities in Chatsworth, about 40 kilometres northwest of Los Angeles, Lundgren strides down the warehouse aisles, pointing this way and that.

"These are all computer electronics here, these are servers over here, you have some television sets that are going to be dismantled," Lungren says. "Every single part of these we're going to save."
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