Where Do Our Resources Go? Indium, Neodymium, and Gold Flows Connected to the Use of Electronic Equipment in Switzerland

Thiébaud, Esther; Hilty, Lorenz M.; Schluep, Mathias; Böni, Heinz; Faulstich, Martin

doi:10.3390/su10082658

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“…REEs are essential to emerging green technologies, new materials, and information technology related equipment manufacturing. [ 81,86,92 ] They are usually used in small or very small amounts, but they are vital for many high‐tech applications, such as for permanent magnets, batteries, and lasers. [ 93 ] CRMs, including REEs, provide unique properties for components or applications.…”

Section: Materials Used In Electronicsmentioning

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Eco‐Friendly Electronics—A Comprehensive Review

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Adv Materials Technologies

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these two phenomena and it is now understood that EEE are both part of the environmental cure and the environmental disease: while the increasing production and disposal of EEE have harmful consequences to the planet, [1] the use of EEE can assist in saving energy and natural resources. The research concerning ecofriendly electronics increased greatly in recent decades due to environmental legislations becoming increasingly rigorous and because of the increase in eco-friendly sought devices, which required business models to adapt in order to participate in this new market share. The concepts of eco-friendly electronics or green electronics comprehends several dimensions of this electronic-environment relationship and has been used loosely for a myriad of initiatives. Hu and Ismail [2] explain that the concept may be used to refer to the i) manufacturing process, through the employment of environmentally friendly processes and the avoidance of hazardous components or chemicals; ii) waste generation (avoidance), via reducing the e-waste impacts through the use of cleaner materials, longer product life, introducing programs to raise awareness and promote reuse/recycling; iii) use of sustainable practice (green computing), through the responsible use of computer resources, for example, by powering down and up devices according to need, reducing energy consumption during inactivity; iv) design, through the development of more efficient components that required less energy to perform, reduce carbon emissions, produce less heat, etc. Yet eco-friendly electronics can also refer to electronics whose purpose is to assist the environment or that do so as a consequence of its main function. Both these groups may be understood as an overlap between the aforementioned categories, and are equipment that optimize energy usage, minimize carbon footprint, detect pollutant concentration, monitor oil spillage, generate renewable energy, etc. There are many and diverse examples of these, such as power electronics, smart grids, and photovoltaic systems. [3] This review is intended to discuss these interactions, define important concepts, and provide an extensive list of ways in which EEE can be eco-friendly, primarily focusing on information and communication technology (ICT) devices, but also addressing items that fall outside of this category such as washing machines and lighting equipment. Initially, the use of electronics in aiding with energy and pollution related Eco-friendliness is becoming an indispensable feature for electrical and electronic equipment to thrive in the competitive market. This comprehensive review is the first to define eco-friendly electronics in its multiple meanings: power saving devices, end-of-life impact attenuators, equipment whose manufacturing uses green processing, electronics that use materials that minimize environmental and health risks, designs that improve lifespan, reparability, etc. More specifically, this review discusses eco-friendly technologies and materials that are being introduced to ...

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Section: Materials Used In Electronicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eco‐Friendly Electronics—A Comprehensive Review

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München

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“…We have to think about post-and neocolonial exploitations (e.g. Castro Varela and Dhawan 2005;Thiébaud et al 2018) by developed countries and eventually accept our responsibility.…”

Section: Sustainability In a Digital Agementioning

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Sustainability in a Digital Age as a Trigger for Organizational Development in Education

Grünberger

Szucsich

2021

Digital Transformation of Learning Organizations

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As we all know the terms sustainability and digitization are often used these days to describe current social challenges from a global perspective. In order to face these challenges, it is clear that we need an efficient and future-oriented education system. The question arises if the challenges in relation to climate change and digitization change these (learning) organizations as well? And, if yes, in what way? As this chapter points out, sustainability can be regarded as a trigger for an extensive organizational development focusing on ecological, economic (e.g. regarding learning outcomes and assessment) and social aspects. As a consequence, the social structure of the various actors in educational organizations as well as the way in which they interact with each other may/will change as well. In addition to that, climate change and digitization are both so-called wicked problems as there is neither a single solution nor a stringent strategy on how to cope with them.

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“…Allrecipes, RecipeSource); • research papers reporting the material composition of specific products such as the ones in Table 2; • documentaries such as "How It's Made" 1 ; • performing a chemical composition analysis of the product of interest. Reference Analyzed products [62] LCD screens [92] fluorescent lamps [95] computer monitors [58] mobile phones [107] headset, HDD, SSD [40] vehicle batteries An analogy between water networks and manufacturing networks can be seen considering both an intuitive and a physical explanation. The intuitive explanation is that both networks are made of nodes (i.e.…”

Section: Computer Vision Focusing On Foodmentioning

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Material Measurement Units for a Circular Economy: Foundations through a Review

Zocco¹,

McLoone²,

Smyth³

2021

Preprint

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Long-term availability of minerals and industrial materials is a necessary condition for sustainable development as they are the constituents of any manufacturing product. In particular, technologies with increasing demand such as GPUs and photovoltaic panels are made of critical raw materials. To enhance the efficiency of material management, in this paper we make three main contributions: first, we identify in the literature an emerging computer-vision-enabled material monitoring technology which we call Material Measurement Unit (MMU); second, we provide a survey of works relevant to the development of MMUs; third, we describe a material stock monitoring sensor network deploying multiple MMUs.

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Where Do Our Resources Go? Indium, Neodymium, and Gold Flows Connected to the Use of Electronic Equipment in Switzerland

Cited by 46 publications

References 45 publications

Eco‐Friendly Electronics—A Comprehensive Review

Eco‐Friendly Electronics—A Comprehensive Review

Sustainability in a Digital Age as a Trigger for Organizational Development in Education

Material Measurement Units for a Circular Economy: Foundations through a Review

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