Collaborative Research and Training Experience in Sustainable Electronics and Eco-Design (CREATE SEED)

可持续电子和生态设计方面的合作研究和培训经验（CREATE SEED）

• 批准号: 543259-2020
• 负责人: Santato, ClaraC
• 金额: $ 22.95万
• 依托单位: École Polytechnique de Montréal
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Collaborative Research and Training Experience
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=754580
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Training; Experience; Sustainable

Consumer electronics offer the potential to improve quality of life and broaden education and information access. Unfortunately, the rapidly growing demand of consumer electronics has led to unsustainable amounts of waste electrical & electronic equipment (WEEE). In 2016, global WEEE was 44.7 megatons with Canada contribution being 724 kilotons of WEEE. WEEE contains hazardous substances that pose health and environmental concerns. On the other hand, the presence of valuable metals in the WEEE stream constitutes economic opportunities for the recycling industry. There is 100 times more gold in a ton of mobile phones than in a ton of gold ore. The material value alone is worth $62.5 billion. To promote sustainability in the electronics industry, a paradigm shift needs to occur in its economic practices from linear to circular. CREATE SEED identified the specific training objectives: Shifting Paradigms from linear to circular design thinking with evidence-based approaches and critical thinking; Breaking information silos and eliminating blind spots such as ecotoxicology; promoting Awareness about the global (transboundary) dimension of the WEEE issue. To implement such a shift, CREATE SEED trainees will work on ambitious research objectives. They will tackle the urgent WEEE issues through the optimization of Recovery and Recycling of components from existing WEEE. Trainees will re-envision Electronics Design by bringing together the best of Conventional Inorganic Electronics and Emerging Organic Technologies and developing manufacturing processes that minimize the Environmental Footprint. CREATE SEED will facilitate the integration / transition of transformative experts with engrained sustainability principles applicable to electronics and emerging technologies, at large, to the Canadian workforce.

消费电子产品具有改善生活质量、扩大教育和信息获取的潜力。不幸的是，消费电子产品需求的快速增长导致了废弃电气和电子设备 (WEEE) 数量的不可持续。 2016年，全球WEEE为44.7兆吨，其中加拿大贡献了724吨WEEE。 WEEE 含有造成健康和环境问题的有害物质。另一方面，WEEE 流中存在的贵重金属为回收行业带来了经济机会。一吨手机中的黄金含量是一吨金矿石中的100倍。仅物质价值就价值 625 亿美元。为了促进电子行业的可持续发展，其经济实践需要发生从线性到循环的范式转变。 CREATE SEED 确定了具体的培训目标：通过基于证据的方法和批判性思维，将范式从线性设计思维转变为循环设计思维；打破信息孤岛，消除生态毒理学等盲点；提高对 WEEE 问题全球（跨界）影响的认识。为了实现这一转变，CREATE SEED 学员将致力于实现雄心勃勃的研究目标。他们将通过优化现有 WEEE 组件的回收和再循环来解决紧迫的 WEEE 问题。学员将重新构想电子设计，将传统无机电子和新兴有机技术的精华结合起来，并开发最大限度减少环境足迹的制造工艺。 CREATE SEED 将促进具有适用于电子和新兴技术的根深蒂固的可持续发展原则的变革性专家与加拿大劳动力的整合/过渡。