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Feb 2024
37m 58s

Mission 1: Is it time to stop buying and...

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Agents - our intel team have discovered that in 2021 every person on Earth produced an average of 7.6 kg of e-waste (that’s 57 MILLION tons across the globe!) To see how responsible engineering can help fix our way to the future, we’ve sent Agent Clark to interrogate the CEO of Team Repair and find out why they’re sending broken tech to schools. Meanwhile Agent Somara has been dispatched undercover to infiltrate a repair party run by the sinister sounding ‘Restart Project’... PLUS sparks (almost literally) fly as Greig Cameron from ‘D’ Branch challenges our intrepid agents to fix a games console against the clock… If you enjoy the show, why not like, subscribe and tell a friend?

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