What to do with those mountains of e-waste?

Published February 25, 2015 This content is archived.

An article on Motherboard, the science and technology magazine of Vice Media, examines e-waste research by Sara Behdad, assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. “My question is, how can we make the whole system of e-waste recovery profitable?” said Behdad. “At some point, I noticed that we needed to go back to the origin—product design.”

http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/slimmer-smartphones-mean-more-ewaste