Fully recyclable laptop

Do you know that your laptop will have to be discarded in the next 4 or 5 years? At the end of its useful life your laptop will start having issues. It may be with the battery, with the fan, with the screen or with the power supply unit. It is not easy to repair an old laptop. You may even attempt to repair it by visiting your nearest store to check if anything can be done to salvage your laptop. However, when you enter the store, the newer models entice you. Invariably a feeling of owning a lovely faster newer laptop takes control of your mind. The feeling is so overwhelming that you may resist it for a while till it is so over powering that the new laptop soon makes it to your home.

What did you do with your old laptop? You may have traded in your older laptop in place of the new one. However do you know that your old laptop is almost not recyclable. Laptops contain PCB boards which contain precious metals like gold that are of value to the recyclers. However given the closed system laptops that we have it is not easily to pry out the recyclable components from the laptop. Majority of laptops of the world end up in third world E-waste dismantling hubs. These hubs rip apart the components by resorting to burning,emersing in acid baths, physical hammering to get to the components. This causes release of very toxic materials into our environment. These toxins are heavy metals which enter the human body through the air we breath and the water we drink or even the food which is grown on contaminated land. The menace of unorganised E-waste dismantling contaminates and permeates our environment. There are direct linkages of improper recycling with harmful impacts on the human health and toxicity persisting in our environment to generations to come.

So this brings me to design of laptop which is completely recyclable. This design weaves the concept of extented producer responsibilty so well into the design. http://inhabitat.com/stanford-students-design-a-fully-recyclable-laptop/. Designed by students of Stanford this fully recyclable laptop is the future of laptop design. This design I believe will promote a deeper and extended relationship between your product and you. Way to go I must say towards better design!