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.
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