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Reuse and Recycling

Reuse and Recycling. Sean Nicholson. Reuse – the forgotten R. In contrast with many home appliances, life cycle energy use of a computer is dominated by production (81%) as opposed to operation (19%). (2004) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15573621. www.microsoft.com/refurbishedpcs.

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Reuse and Recycling

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  1. Reuse and Recycling Sean Nicholson

  2. Reuse – the forgotten R In contrast with many home appliances, life cycle energy use of a computer is dominated by production (81%) as opposed to operation (19%). (2004) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15573621

  3. www.microsoft.com/refurbishedpcs

  4. Reuse for economic opportunity http://raceonline2012.org/manifesto/7 http://www.connect2compete.org/

  5. Reuse helps people • The use of EEE is still low in Africa compared to other countries in the world, but it is growing at a staggering pace. In the last decade for instance, the penetration rate of personal computers has increased by a factor of 10, while the number of mobile phone subscribers has increased by a factor of 100. The penetration rate signifies that due to the intense trade of used EEE, people have better access to lower priced EEE. From this perspective,the import and trade of used EEE is in support of the UN Millennium Development Goals as a means to foster the use of ICT for sustainable development.Source: Where are WEee in Africa? FINDINGS FROM THE BASEL CONVENTION E-WASTE AFRICA PROGRAMME

  6. Despite difficulties in obtaining data on new and used EEE as statistical data does not distinguish between these two categories of products, the studies in Ghana, for example, revealed that in 2009 around 70% of all imports were used EEE. 30% of the used EEE imported was determined to be non-functioning (hence should have been defined as e-waste): half of this amount was repaired locally and sold to consumers and the other half was un-repairable. http://www.basel.int/Portals/4/download.aspx?d=UNEP-CHW-EWASTE-PUB-WeeAfricaReport.English.pdf

  7. The Strategic problem is not OECD Exports of used EEE Forecasting Global Generation of Obsolete Personal Computers Jinglei Yu, Eric Williams, Meiting Ju and Yan Yang (March 2010) http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es903350q

  8. How do we drive more electronics through certified reuse and recycling channels.

  9. Why use a certified disposal channel? To Avoid Risk - Data, Legal To get money back To help the planet

  10. Local Reuse & Disassembly can scale easily to feed regional recycling Barriers Barriers

  11. Thank You seannich@microsoft.com

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