## NewsBits
In **Romania**, one of the European Union's poorest nations, a social enterprise called **Workshops Without Borders** has found a way to help some of the country's most destitute people: recycling computers, reports the [_Times of Oman_](http://www.timesofoman.com/News/Article-8440.aspx).
Patent No. 8,366,874 has been awarded to Empire Technology Development LLC, for a **method of removing and sorting components on a printed circuit board**.
**The amount of unwanted electronics is only getting bigger** and the issues surrounding how to handle them are only becoming more complicated. But an [infographic](http://www.govtech.com/infographics/E-Waste-and-Us-17000-Tons-Trashed-Each-Year-Infographic.html) from [Fonebank.com](http://www.fonebank.com/) seems to cover just about every facet of this growing industry.
The **U.K.'s Environment Agency is auditing 20 local WEEE collection sites** over concerns that they are not following regulations and are diverting material to other facilities, reports [_letsrecycle.com_](http://www.letsrecycle.com/news/latest-news/weee/agency-investigates-dcf-weee-leakage).
Designer Sean Miles has created four lines of "[Walkie Talkies](http://news.o2.co.uk/?press-release=recycling-becomes-a-walk-in-the-park)," **shoes that have fully functional handsets recycled into them**. The project was sponsored by O2 Recycle, a U.K. electronics buy-back company, and each Walkie Talkie performs exactly as a normal phone would with the keypad being incorporated into the sole of each shoe.
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