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.

消费电子产品提供了改善生活质量，扩大教育和信息获取的潜力。不幸的是，消费电子产品的快速需求导致了不可持续的废物电气和电子设备（WEEE）。 2016年，Global Weee为44.7兆吨，加拿大的贡献为724千座Weee。 WEEE包含构成健康和环境问题的危险物质。另一方面，Weee流中有价值的金属在回收行业构成了经济机会。一吨手机中的黄金比一吨金矿石高100倍。仅材料价值就价值625亿美元。为了促进电子行业的可持续性，其经济实践从线性到循环中都需要发生范式转变。创建种子确定了特定的培训目标：通过基于证据的方法和批判性思维将范式从线性转变为循环设计思维；破坏信息孤岛并消除诸如生态毒理学之类的盲点；提高人们对WEEE问题的全球（跨界）维度的认识。为了实施这种转变，创建种子学员将致力于雄心勃勃的研究目标。他们将通过优化现有WEEE的恢复和回收组件来解决紧急的WEEE问题。受训者将通过将最佳的传统无机电子和新兴有机技术和开发制造工艺汇集在一起​​，以最大程度地减少环境足迹，来重新启动电子设计。 Create Seed将有助于将变革性专家与适用于电子和新兴技术的基础可持续性原则的整合 /过渡到加拿大劳动力。