European Consortium Recycles Smartphone Components for Other Devices
Deutsche Telekom is working with a consortium of companies to recycle electronic components from smartphones and other devices and reuse them to build other gear. The first prototype device is the NeoCircuit DSL router, unveiled last week. “Together with our…
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partners, we are not relying solely on traditional electronics recycling, where large parts are still simply incinerated,” said Henning Never, manager of the project: “Instead, we focus on reusing functional components such as processors, memory and transistors.” The other members of the consortium are Citronics, Evonik, Fairphone, Infineon, MaxLinear, Sagemcom and INC Innovation Center.