Design for Environment (DfE)

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Design for Environment (DfE)
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There are now more than seven billion mobile
phones in the world and only 1.3 billion users.
Many older phones are left in drawers rather than
being recycled. Between 20 and 90 million phones
are thought to be lying around in the UK alone.
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Only 10-15 of mobile phones are recycled. The
phones are first shredded (left) and the metals,
including silver and gold, are extracted and
resold. The remaining waste (right) is often
incinerated
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New European guidelines coming into force later
in the year will require industry and consumers
to reduce the waste from electrical devices. This
printer ribbon for example is made entirely of
recycled phone parts
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Biodegradable phone covers developed by Warwick
University in the UK contain sunflower seeds and
can be planted in the garden
Technology giant NEC has already incorporated
green design into some of its phones. This model
has a biodegradable cover and is currently only
available in Japan
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Everyday household products can even be used in
mobiles. Here, the Welding Institute in the UK
shows how lasagne sheets can be used as a circuit
board. Eventually they hope to use chitin, a
starch-based compound found in shellfish
The US poultry industry produces more than a
billion kilograms of feathers every year. The
University of Delaware has combined some of these
with soy bean to create an environmentally
friendly circuit board for mobiles
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Oxis Energy is a company trying to develop new
designs that remove the need for heavy metals and
toxic chemicals. This is a prototype of a lithium
sulphide battery
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The Dead Ringers exhibition opens on the 29 March
and runs for six months at the Science Museum in
London
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Reusing PET
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PET Project by Miwa Koizumi