Mitigating the Environmental Impact of Smartphones with Device Reuse

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Author(s): Xun Li (University of California – Santa Barbara, USA), Pablo Ortiz (University of California – Santa Barbara, USA), Brandon Kuczenski (University of California – Santa Barbara, USA), Diana Franklin (University of California – Santa Barbara, USA)and Frederic T. Chong (University of California – Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 31
Source title: Sustainable ICTs and Management Systems for Green Computing
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Wen-Chen Hu (University of North Dakota, USA)and Naima Kaabouch (University of North Dakota, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-1839-8.ch011

Keywords: Environment & Agriculture / Environmental Science and Technologies / Information Science Reference / Sustainable Development

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The rapid growth of information technology has not only brought substantial economic and societal benefit but also led to an unsustainable disposable model in which mobile devices are replaced in a matter of months. The environmental impact of this stream of handsets in terms of manufacturing energy, materials, and disposal costs is alarming. This chapter aims at raising today’s environmental issues of the increasing smartphone market, as well as providing a quantitative analysis on the environmental impact of different life-cycle stages of the smartphones, including the manufacturing stage, using stage, and recycling. To achieve sustainable computing and best utilize the energy consumed during manufacturing the large number of devices, this chapter demonstrates the methodology and techniques towards reusing smartphones by presenting a case study on reusing smartphones for elementary school education.

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