> The final area is the contribution of mobiles to environmental problems. > Specifically when mobiles become waste, they are full of a lot of bad stuff > that needs to be handled correctly. The lead, arsenic, antimony, beryllium, > cadmium, copper, etc. need to be taken care of. The other reusable elements > need to be reused and the silver, copper, platinum, and gold need to be > recovered.
Yah, Elaine Huang and Khai Truong have had a few interesting papers on this: Huang, E. M., Truong, K. N. (2008) "Situated sustainability for mobile phones." To appear in ACM Interactions. Huang, E. M., Truong, K. N. (2008)"Breaking the paradigm of disposable technology: Opportunities for sustainable interaction design for mobile phones." To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008). Florence, Italy. (pdf) BEST PAPER AWARD NOMINEE Huang E. M., Truong, K. N. (2007) "Understanding the paradigm of disposable technology: What happens to old mobile phones?" Position paper for the UbiComp 2007 Workshop on Sustainability: Technologies for Green Values. (pdf) I've seen some small scale phone recycling efforts for charity, but nothing on a larger industry scale. I was hoping to take a class next semester on design and e-waste so I'll post more resources as I hear about them... Marcela --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
