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  • 'Nano-paper' chips end up in compost heaps, not landfills

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    05.27.2015

    Today's cast-off gadgets are far more likely to end up in a landfill than they are being responsibly disposed of. In fact, 41.8 million tons of e-waste were scrapped last year alone. To combat this, a team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison has invented a radically new kind of ecologically-friendly semiconductor chip made from wood. No, seriously.