A case study of the D4R laptop

Hickey, Stewart; Fitzpatrick, Colin; Maher, Paul; Ospina, Jose; Schischke, Karsten; Beigl, Peter; Vidorreta, Itziar; Yang, Mona; Williams, I.D.; Boer, Emilia den

doi:10.1680/warm.13.00031

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“…in a case of construction and demolition waste (Chen et al 2006)). The challenge often is to bootstrap such systems, such as in The Resource eXchange Platform (TRXP) (Dietrich et al 2014;Hickey et al 2014), a resource 'exchange' web-platform facilitating industrial symbiosis by building a network of organizations in Europe that could reuse or disassemble industrial streams of ICT equipment. The researchers (Dietrich et al 2014) show that the open platform is technically feasible and could extend reuse streams by means of industrial symbiosis.…”

Section: Open Online Waste Marketsmentioning

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A Literature Survey of Information Systems Facilitating the Identification of Industrial Symbiosis

2017

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Industrial Symbiosis (IS) is an emerging business tool that is used by practitioners to engage cooperation among industries to reuse waste streams. The key to reveal IS opportunities for organizations is both connecting the supply and demand of various industries and providing technical knowledge on the IS implementation. This process is increasingly supported by information systems which act as a facilitator of communication and distributor of knowledge. However, we lack understanding of a describing role of each type of information system within the process of IS identification. IS literature could benefit from a clear overview of (i) the characteristics of these different information systems, (ii) the role of support these systems provide, and (iii) the technologies used to enable such identification. This paper analyzes the current state of literature that addresses information systems that facilitate IS identification and studies these systems using these three pillars. Our study contributes by providing a classification framework of information systems that facilitate industrial symbiosis identification and reveals three research directions to progress IS identification tools, namely (i) software product and service development (ii) data integration, and (iii) adoption of intelligent learning.

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Section: Open Online Waste Marketsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Literature Survey of Information Systems Facilitating the Identification of Industrial Symbiosis

2017

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“…Already the waste in context with the production is reduced, partly by the idea, that waste of the production becomes a resource for another company's production. Additionally, the product design aims to extend the life span of the laptop to a mimimum of 10 years [39].…”

Section: Ecological Product Designmentioning

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Approach to solving the e-waste problem – case study ghana

Hoeltl¹,

Brandtweiner²,

Muller³

2017

Int. J. SDP

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The market for electrical devices still continues to increase all over the world and as a consequence the quantity of waste in the category of electronics rises. A huge proportion of the electronic waste is exported from the industrial countries to developing countries, in order to save costs, and also because of too few recycling plants in industrial countries. The significant environmental and social problem in this context is that the electronic devices are mostly recycled in informal plants. Thereby the burden for the people as well as the environment increases because e-waste includes a lot of toxic substances. The negative impacts are already obvious in countries of importation. This paper will illustrate this on the basis of the case study in Ghana in Africa. The problem is evident, and research, business as well as governments aim to counter this development. The paper will investigate the current approaches employed for solving the e-waste problem with respect to legal options and also regarding voluntary agreements and the provision of information about the actual situation to the consumers.

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“…Two of the Zerowin case studies apply this methodology for high-tech products: a laptop and a photovoltaic (PV) system. The D4R laptop case study (Hickey et al, 2014) has demonstrated an industrial network established by a laptop manufacturer MicroPro with end-of-life IT asset management firms, IT refurbishers, component manufacturers and local industries. The innovative idea was to develop a laptop design that allows the creation of a new life for the used IT components, thus turning wastes into products.…”

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Editorial: Industrial networks for resource efficiency

Boer¹,

Williams²,

Curran³

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Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Waste and R

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Wasted materials represent valuable resources that we can no longer afford to discard. The concept of 'zero waste' is a challenge to old ways of thinking, calling for waste to be viewed as a potential resource with value to be realised, rather than as a problem to be dealt with, usually by burial in landfill sites or incineration without energy recovery. Examples of industrial symbiosis -the theoretical rationale and methods for sharing information and resources across different industriesare starting to be found worldwide. In this themed issue, we focus on technological issues. A short overview of the themes that are discussed in detail in the individual papers is given below. The key concepts of the Zerowin vision (outlined in the briefing by den Boer et al. (2014)) formed the foundation of the demonstration case studies presented in this journal.One of the methods deemed promising for the zero waste strategies is the holistic design for recycling, repair, refurbishment and reuse (D4R). Two of the Zerowin case studies apply this methodology for high-tech products: a laptop and a photovoltaic (PV) system. The D4R laptop case study (Hickey et al., 2014) has demonstrated an industrial network established by a laptop manufacturer MicroPro with end-of-life IT asset management firms, IT refurbishers, component manufacturers and local industries. The innovative idea was to develop a laptop design that allows the creation of a new life for the used IT components, thus turning wastes into products. MicroPro has successfully been able to manufacture a universal shell that is capable of accepting new primary system components and also has the ability to integrate various parts and components (and parts and components of different specifications).The focus of the second case study is a D4R PV system (Arranz et al., 2014). Here, a Zerowin industrial network allowing higher resource efficiency was developed around the PV system prototype, which, at the same time, was designed to operate more efficiently. The demonstration of the PV system case study was carried out in two phases: the first phase concerned the redesign of the power conditioning equipment according to the D4R strategies. The second phase was the demonstration of the D4R design of: (a) a gridconnected PV system at the energy provision company and (b) a stand-alone system installed at the recycling company, both in Spain. The development of the prototype focused on the improvement of the overall PV system efficiency (performance ratio (PR)), the increase of the operational lifetime, the improvement of the overall PV system condition monitoring and the increase of the reliability of the equipment. Improving the PR and the operational lifetime of the different components will enable the reduction of the use of batteries and PV modules -the main contributors of the PV system environmental impacts.The first and second case studies are directly linked to the thirdReUse network (Dietrich et al., 2014). The ReUse network is a value-conservation network that focuses on...

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A case study of the D4R laptop

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

A Literature Survey of Information Systems Facilitating the Identification of Industrial Symbiosis

A Literature Survey of Information Systems Facilitating the Identification of Industrial Symbiosis

Approach to solving the e-waste problem – case study ghana

Editorial: Industrial networks for resource efficiency

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