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Despite increasing pressure to reduce the consumption of critical resources, a number of highly relevant elements are still not being recycled from electronics, or only in the few applications, where they are used in bigger units. In high volume products and particular mobile products such as smartphones the content of these materials is low per unit, but still a large quantity when multiplied with millions of units shipped per year. The sustainably SMART projects explores the option to separate components containing tantalum, neodymium and tungsten from disassembled smartphones as these metals are lost in conventional electronics waste recycling processes. In this paper the target components are tantalum capacitors, loudspeakers, and vibration motors. Example quantities per device are explored and mirrored against current and potential recycling processes. |
