How to Start Electronic Waste Management: Solutions, Processes, and Innovations for Students

How can this electronic waste management be started? Are there any solutions and processes to this? Any experiments? Innovations? I am a student and I'm currently thinking problems for a research proposal. I just want to ask insights from you. I hope you could help me. Thank you.

Yes strip it all down if you can that’s if you can the components of the PCB these days after what I’ve seen to day that seems highly unlikely because they now using embedded integrated circuits in the PCB all part of the printed circuit board structure where they have become so greedy and there is no other way to describe some of this either

Utilize what ever you can in other projects which is what I often do As for PCB waste component waste well they certainly know how to do this alright that much I can say , money doesn’t seem to be an object with these companies Waste however and how to destroy an entire industry also seems high on their priority list as does making as many people unemployed as they possibly can which also means not very good for the environment either as i dare say you know full well PCB silicon and other components are deadly poisons to the earth So what all this unleaded solder has done or this idea of lead free components Well it hasn’t has it except practically made nearly all of this unserviceable

One of the main reasons why many of us now are looking at this problem in earnest and we saying the same Put them out of business and make them answer these questions together with governments if need be because they are actually starting another war

In my opinion, the first principle must be to design things in such a way that they can easiliy and efficiently be disassembled so that the parts can be re-used or recycled. As Mark indicates, the growth of SMT processes tend to make this increasingly impossible.

But capitalism demands that things be made ever cheaper and ever more disposable, so unless there is powerful government regulation from the design stages (probably impossible), how can companies be persuaded to make their products capable of being fully re-cycled ?

People need to be changed. Strong positive moral education from childhood emphasising care for others and care for the environment may play a part in this.

One present initiative is the recyling of old PC computers by companies or charities either for resale or donation to third world countries for educational programs. (Google "computer recycling organisations" ?)

Hi Xyrra,
Electronic waste management is such a vast topic. There are different components that you'd need to consider. I believe this is for an undergraduate research proposal? If that is the case, I would recommend that you look into narrowing it down as to what you really wanna do, what are your current capabilities and if you have enough time to finish the project. There has already been several attempts to establish Electronic Waste Management but significant results are still to be seen (this is where you start your research on). I suggest you look into one aspect that is hindering the success of this feat. Check what are the factors affecting this and see if it is something that can be dealt with at your current stage and see if you can make a feasible project to address that limitation.

This does make me laugh this topic plus all the rules and regulations they come out with which makes this even more impossible Its a fantastic chicken or egg story this one

There are lots of ways in which to make items reusable One is Frank suggested recycling components The other is with simple things such as change the solder back to what it was

Your wasting time and money making this process more expensive than ever before

The next is use IC sockets and go back a stage to DIL sockets PLCC sockets

The next is if using SMT components but consider the size if these components Setting the minimum size such that this is acceptable You’d have to do this using international agreement ( Also Impossible)


The next I guess is stop using embedded PCB components buy this is mean stop trying to make it unserviceable which is what they doing ( What can you say to this , More money than sence , Very wastefull society shows they have no appreciation for money of for skills or the world around them )

This is force you to buy a new machine although even this is now backfiring Example the Motor Industry Such greed hath I never encountered before in my entire lifetime £300 to £700 for a head unit for a vehicle all because its OEM (True this as well)

This is over the fact that they had to borrow money to stop the Industry from collapsing Guess who pays for this however in the long run Not just the dealers every Industry globally

I used to think th e mobile phone industry was greedy back in the early days when you paid more or less £2000 - £3000 for a mobile phone but thinking back now It was worth every penny of it Th consumer became greedy the dealers became greedy the airtime companies became greedy the manufacture however became cheaper and cheaper as did the engineering side

The same could be said about the comercial TV Industry and the Audio Industry and The Film making Industry I was right about this too Now of course its the PC industry and the next Industry being of course Power This also Industry that will go bust in the end and it will but this too is born from greed raher than conservation

The next is avoid using multilayer PCBS but this too is impossible market trends dictate they want electronic items so small that they practically in operable

Consider the person with Rheumatism or the person that is blind or partially blind Consider the internet the amount of elderly frail etc who cant use this technology Sick ( Almost disgusting ) isn’t it when you think about this in depth yet all information and all forms are what the current governments are insisting on

That means for a large proportion of the Uk population who have never been to school or have very limited education wont be able to achieve this

The net consequences will be inevitable prison sentances for failing to register or fill out the approriate forms on the net Equally as disugustig as ever when you consider it was only thier own countries laws that did not ensure they were educated to that level in the first instance Should have done this years ago

Also consider if you will the price of sofwtare operating systems connection to the internet Germany now has internet installed into most homes Its a service they provide Where are Britain in relations to this I ask

So they make this more expensive for the disabled (Capitalism again but a nasty spiteful capitalism almost Nazi in nature aimed at how to get money out of people in far weaker concerns ) Every one has to make money but there is making money and making money I’m sure you will agree

I could possibly write pages and pages on this topic and still get no where at all This is the world we live in ( As someone put it quite a few people , Only the strongest survive Question of course is Are we going back in time to the early middle ages and before because its creating animals and savages the killing has started as we have seen so very often in the papers ) Most of which is over money

Next of course we can say ahh we have the national lottery but that too creates even more greed

The more money they have the more they want driving the world into far greater poverty than ever before Its also falling into the wrong hands ( Salems lotto)

Perhaps I should build the arc but what is the real meaning of the arc ( Interesting ) First need women with green eyes

Here you are have an alien ? Well you have to throw in a joke somewhere dont you

The stange apart about any massive gambling concerns is, you be suprised just how many people will put £20 , £30, £100 , even more in a national lotteryicket euro lottery tciket but would you also believe that each and every one of these people wont pay a penny more in tax or contribute to the betterment of thier very own country ( Also Interesting ) You could say this is where capitalism doesent work

There is always a place for technology but having said all this I often wonder whether this is all to the benefit of mankind sure we have to move forward but at what expense

Unfortunately life and history dictate that after a renaissance of some type there is always a war that evolves born from industrial revolutions

Is that not what we are seeing now Good question I suppose ? Perhaps this time man has gone to far

I’m no communist neither am I technophobe Im a strong believer in technological progress but I still consider its implications

I can also see when something is going horribly wrong and it is !

I see the people most affected by this

Still the answer lies somewhere in the middle Its the governments priority to ensure people are brought up to those standards and should be providing training to rectify and put right so many mistakes that have been made for decades Its also the publics who should ensuring that elected candidates who stand for government do so

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqSJzpfWRj4

I love also the way the do this as well
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23503095
Housing benefit challenge fails Notice


Possibly drifting off the topic a bit but its important Always you notice at the people most affected Always the ones at the bottom of the ladder do they charge


Also this is never pointed at home owners but always at council tenants never do they point this at home owners who use the dhss to pay their mortgages for them

Makes you wonder who owns the house anyway does it not ? Also interesting as this all points to the same answer the same outcome so you need to consider related indirectly related events

Well they do say when you reach the speed of light then time begins to go backwards Isn't that what’s happening too EG No Jobs, No training, Throw away goods, don’t need to train, no investment, but then how do you create modern day engineers if there is no mechanical, no moving parts , no basics, no stock holdings and of course no employment its nature you see taking care if its own Its sees to it when the world is stressed beyond reconcile that some other force must come into play Interesting topic this what will happen is the inevitable Its on the cards isn’t it !!

You can read more about energy converstion techniques here fascinating articles practicalling spelling the death of the past costs of energy producers who charge the earth for power into your homes etc
http://www.wanttoknow.info/newenergyinventionsnewsarticles


They say no truth in the bible Looks like science is actually proving them all wrong Im not religeous either by the way !!

It causes arguments to many of them

Somebody just suggested this to me. Anyhow, thank you for the advice. I'll think other topics besides this.