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Recycling

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The Future of Electronics

We seem to have lost our skills on repairing. E-waste is the fastest growing waste stream in the world. We are just concluding a project with MasterCard. Everybody has a credit card in their wallet, right? And of course, what do you do with that? Because it's not just the plastic card. You've got a barium magnetic strip. You've also got a bunch of metals in the chipset. So they came to us. We designed a system where you can de-plitterize the plastics and take that back to monomers,. recover all the metals from the chipset, and then make the new card. Fully circular, really good techno-economic analysis and

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