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It took a World Bank-funded infrastructre project seven years and hundreds of millions of dollars to create just one international link for high speed wifi in Afghanistan. It took a few smart, handy people just a few brainstorm sessions, a day of work, and a pile of trash to create their own wifi. It underscores the point that "trash" is just raw materials in the wrong place.

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Karin Landsberg, 42, a self-described “eco-geek” in Seattle, was so curious that she invited researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology into her home last month to fish 12 items out of her garbage and recycling bins — a can of beans, a compact fluorescent light bulb — and tag them with small electronic tracking devices.

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A small company called IST Energy has developed a shipping container-size contraption that turns your building's trash into electricity and heat.

The idea behind the Green Energy Machine is to offset a building's energy use while dramatically cutting trash disposal fees. The cost of trash removal can vary greatly, but a university or office park with a number of buildings could pay about $200,000 a year, according to IST Energy executives

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