According to recycling leaders, who traveled to China in the hopes of obtaining clarification on China’s impending imports ban, China is unprepared to enact or enforce the waste policies that are set to roll out Jan. 1. President of the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Robert Wiener and ISRI Chairman Mark Lewon met with …
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The following is a recap of the HOBI blog during the week of 12/11-12/15. U.K. students research cheaper tools for identifying plastics Team Matoha, a group composed of four undergraduate students at Imperial College London, is looking into developing low-cost instruments that will manually identify and sort plastic materials based on resin type. OEM representative …
Top Chinese environmental official recently revealed that China will be enforcing the upcoming import restrictions “to the letter.” Environmental Minister Li Ganjie characterized the country’s materials ban and recently updated contaminant standards revision as two separate actions during a press conference held by Chinese environmental officials on Nov. 16. This confirmed the growing speculation that …
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Yesterday, Apple announced the iMac Pro, the professional grade version of the company’s all-in-one, would be available for sale Dec. 14. The desktop was first revealed at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with little information promoting it other than a vague December release date. However, Apple suddenly announced the release of the highly anticipated …
Enhancing Repairability of Lithium-Ion batteries in Mobile Devices by: Craig Boswell Concern for safe battery removal — particularly in mobile devices — is prompting processors, industry organizations and OEMs to examine design, manufacturing and disassembly procedures. Due to the highly volatile nature of lithium-ion batteries, establishing a set of industry safety standards and manufacturing protocols …
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Craig Melson, a program manager at techUK, penned an article for New Electronics, a U.K. trade publication for electronics engineers, where he discussed the emerging repairability and recyclability expectations facing the electronics industry. Melson also addressed the important key role that electronics engineers play in ensuring that devices are repairable and recyclable. “Whilst innovation and …
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A team of four undergraduate chemistry and physics students at Imperial College London are trying to develop low-cost instruments that will manually identify and sort plastic materials based on differing types of resin. Students Martin Holicky, Han Chan, David Dai and James Kung, are working towards re-thinking how near-infrared spectrometers are designed and constructed to …
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The following is a weekly recap of the HOBI blog for the week 12/04-12/08. Apple rumored to release a cheaper iPhone model by mid-2018 Multiple reports speculate Apple is preparing to launch the iPhone SE 2, at a much more affordable rate than their most recent mobile devices, by July of 2018. Rumors say the …
As lithium-ion batteries become more useful in the manufacturing of vehicles, the more experts predict that the batteries will regularly appear in the waste stream within the next coming years. Despite the batteries still in the early stages of entering the waste stream, British Columbia-based company American Manganese sees this trend as a great opportunity. …
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For years, electronic waste has literally become a mounting crisis in Africa. Digital dumps composed of cell phones, computers and TVs exported from Western countries are growing across the African landscape and produce hazardous gases. WoeLab, a community tech hub and innovative lab in Lomé, the capital city of Togo in West Africa, is raising …
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