RECYCLABLE ELECTRONICS
Scientists create the World’s first fully recyclable printed Electronics
Engineers at Duke University demonstrated their transistor invention that can be reduced to its original building blocks
As if the waste we produce on a daily basis is not enough of a problem, the increased consumption of electronic devices and their eventual recycling has added a new dimension to it. At least I do my part of not throwing the unused or discarded electronics in the garbage — instead, collect the discarded devices and go hand them over to the big box retailer which takes the responsibility of recycling them. However, electronic devices are difficult to recycle. While scraps of copper, aluminum, and steel can be recycled, the silicon chips at the heart of the devices cannot.
According to a United Nations estimate, less than a quarter of the millions of pounds of electronics thrown away each year are recycled. And the problem is only going to get worse as the world upgrades to newer 5G devices and Digital Transformation gathers pace. Engineers at Duke University set about finding a sustainable solution for this ever-growing problem.
They did this by developing the world’s first fully recyclable printed electronics —…
