Polytechnique Montréal will host the activities of the UNESCO Chair in Green and Sustainable Electronics (ÉleVéS), which involves partners from three continents. This Chair will be looking at solutions to improve the life cycle of the electronic devices that make up our appliances and thus reduce the impact of electronic waste.
Ghana, an African country on the Gulf of Guinea, imports hundreds of thousands of tonnes of electronic waste every year.
The Basel Convention prohibits the export of waste containing toxic products, but old fridges, slightly outdated computers and a host of other electronic waste from North America and Europe…
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PEI leads the way with electronic medical record systems
Prince Edward Island is leading the country with its recently implemented, province-wide, electronic medical records system.
It’s a key part of the island’s fundamental family medicine reorganization, a move which officials hope will finally strike a serious blow against the ongoing healthcare crisis.
The vast majority of family doctors on PEI are now using an electronic medical record to manage the treatment of their patients.
Just two years ago 70 per cent of island general practitioners were primarily using paper records, and the rest were using what amounted to a virtual filling cabinet.
The new system is standardized, allowing doctors…
UC Irvine physicists discover first transformable nano-scale electronic devices – UCI News
Irvine, Calif., April 17, 2023 — The nano-scale electronic parts in devices like smartphones are solid, static objects that once designed and built cannot transform into anything else. But University of California, Irvine physicists have reported the discovery of nano-scale devices that can transform into many different shapes and sizes even though they exist in solid states.
It’s a finding that could fundamentally change the nature of electronic devices, as well as the way scientists research atomic-scale quantum materials. The study was published recently in Science Advances.
“What we discovered is that for a particular set of materials, you can…
Right to Repair: Why is it so difficult to fix our electronics?
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Right to Repair: Inside the movement fighting for all consumers
John Fadel claims he can fix anything that plugs in. The inside of his shop, American Electronics, is a testament to that. The walls are lined with radios from the 1930s, speakers, VCR players, and desktop computers.
On this day, parts from a record player from the ’40s and a Sony CD stereo system sit side by side on his worktable. The generational knowledge passed down from his father, paired with formal engineering training, should have been everything Fadel needed to carry on the family trade.
But to repair…
Canadian e-waste has tripled, new study finds | Waterloo News
New research finds that Canada’s electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) has more than tripled in the last two decades, the equivalent of filling the CN tower 110 times and generating close to a million tons in 2020 alone.
The University of Waterloo researchers completed the first comprehensive estimate of e-waste in Canada to understand its lifecycle, from sales of electronic items to e-waste generation. Their findings reveal that the e-waste generation per person has increased from 8.3 kg in 2000 to 25.3 kg in 2020. The e-waste in Canada is expected to continue rising in the near future and underscores…
Knowing which sheep your woolen jumper came from is possible with electronic identification (eID) tags
Do you know where your woolen jumper came from?
It’s unlikely that you do. That’s because, despite wool being one of Australia’s oldest industries, there’s been very little technological change in the way that it is produced — until now.
With electronic identification (eID) tags due to become mandatory for sheep across the country by 2025 to help in the case of a biosecurity incursion, some woolgrowers have seen another benefit in the new technology.
“We see value in these tags purely from a commercial level,” said Alister Persse, a woolgrower near Goondiwindi on the New South Wales/Queensland border.
The…
Electronic Flight Bag, the new standard | FAST Online | News
For several years, the Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) has been bringing the most up-to-date technology into the cockpit. As it has become the standard way of operations, all Airbus operators must transfer to full EFB-based operations by the end of 2021. From 2022, Airbus will no longer be providing information for operators to deviate from this standard way.
The EFB aims at replacing the on-board paper documentation by providing the flight crew with:
Performance applications to compute the aircraft loadsheet and performance at take-off, cruise and landing
An application to manage the Checklists and Procedures
A browser to access flight…
E-waste in the EU: facts and figures (infographic) | Topics
Why do we need to recycle electronic and electrical waste?
Discarded electronic and electrical equipment contains potentially harmful materials that pollute the environment and increase the risks for people involved in recycling e-waste. To counter this problem, the EU has passed legislation to prevent the use of certain chemicals, like lead.
Many rare minerals that are needed in modern technology come from countries that do not respect human rights. To avoid inadvertently supporting armed conflict and human rights abuses, MEPs have adopted rules requiring European importers of rare earth minerals to carry out background checks on their suppliers.
What is…