With e-waste becoming one on of the hotter issues in the current green scene, many companies are venturing into the e-recycling business to counteract the collection of e-waste.

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2. With e-waste becoming
one on of the hotter
issues in the current
green scene, many
companies are
venturing into the e-
recycling business to
counteract the collection
of e-waste.

3. This e-waste, in case
you’re uninitiated, is the
accumulation of discarded
electronics like laptop
components which pose
not just landfill problems
but chemical ones as
well, owing to the various
chemical compounds
necessary to create
power cells and such.

4. What e-recycling does is
gather these old
electronics before they
are thrown away,
segregate each unusable
part, dispose of said parts
in the greenest ways
possible, recycle the
remaining parts, refurbish
them to become a whole
gadget again and sell
them at discount prices.

5. That said, do you know exactly which
parts are recyclable and which aren’t?
For the purposes of this article, let’s
focus specifically on laptop parts.
• Batteries
• Motherboard
• (Some) Plastic Chassis

6. Batteries
Most, if not all rechargeable
batteries can be used again and
again. Sure, battery degradation
is inevitable, but this isn’t
something that cannot ultimately
be fixed by swapping out bits or
two of the battery.
Also, since the majority of chemicals
from discarded laptops originate from
their batteries, the recycling of these
laptop parts is given primary
attention.

7. Motherboard
Unlike batteries, recycling
motherboards completely
destroys them. As they
are, they’re fairly useless. But
broken down into pieces, many
useful metals can be gathered. E-
recycling companies go about this
either by crushing the
motherboards and using magnets
to pick out the metals, or melting
the motherboards and skimming
for reusable bits.
Their destruction
notwithstanding, many pieces
from laptop motherboards are still
usable.

8. (Some) Plastic Chassis
Most current laptop chassis are
manufactured using a combination of
many materials, mostly metal. Also, just as not all metallic
However, not all metals are easily chassis are easily recyclable, not
recyclable. all plastic ones should be
disposed of immediately either. In
particular, Apple and Dell use so-
called recyclable plastics;
although when you do recycle
For aluminum chassis, things should be these, you have to head straight
fairly easy. You can just drop yours off at to their manufacturers.
a recycling plant and be done with it.
Alloys, though, are a bit more
complicated. For these, you really need
to go to proper e-recycling centers as
they employ the proper methods for
exactly these kinds of metals.

9. Significant Developments
For now, you wouldn’t be faulted for thinking that laptops still contribute
greatly to e-waste despite the advent of e-recycling. However, it should
be noted that students at Stanford University are currently designing
laptops made of 100% recyclable laptop parts. They are calling it the
Bloom Laptop.

10. Significant Developments
Even more amazing, these Blooms are not only recyclable, but
can be taken apart easily as well, so that much like with
desktops, laptop users in the future will no longer have to throw
out whole computers. Instead, they can just swap out what they
don’t need with laptop spare parts. This is definitely good news
for green enthusiasts indeed.
Alas, that future is still a ways off. For now, we have e-
recycling, and for what it’s worth, it’s currently the best method
we have of staving off e-waste. As such, it would do us all well to
really implement it.

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