Recycling Electronics: Benefits and Gains

RE: Recycling Electronics: Benefits and Gains

Workshopshed — Mon, 21 May 2018 08:31:36 GMT

There's quite a few factors that need to be considered for electronics.

Testability

Servicability (i.e. checking calibration, retesting, upgrading etc)

Repair

Dismantling / reuse

As well as making things easy to repair you can make them so the materials are more easily re-used. The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has done a lot of reseach into this.

https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-economy

I also spotted the Nintendo Switch Labo this morning carboard add-ons to the switch. I like that that gets kids making as well as playing. It reminds me of the cardboard puppet shows you used to get back in the Victoria era onwards.

RE: Recycling Electronics: Benefits and Gains

station240 — Mon, 14 May 2018 17:03:30 GMT

There is something to be said for designing electronics to be easier to repair or dismantle for recycling.

Also careful choice of components can reduce not just the number of different parts used, but also how many different metals and plastics.

RE: Recycling Electronics: Benefits and Gains

DAB — Mon, 07 May 2018 19:14:27 GMT

Great post Cabe.

I am a very big fan of recycling old electronics gear.

They were so well made, easy to repair and a lot of it still works after forty or fifty years.

DAB