This interactive workshop will further develop students' knowledge and understanding of the local and global implications of managing electronic waste. They will explore how social enterprises are using technology and innovation to divert waste from landfill through extracting, recycling and repurposing valuable components from electronic devices. Students will safely use basic tools to dismantle, sort and retrieve useful electrical, metal and plastic parts from laptop computers, which will then be sent to an e-waste innovation hub to be upcycled and/or repurposed. They will critically examine technologies and explore ways to create sustainable designed solutions to reduce the environmental impacts of production and consumption.
Key
Concepts: Technology,
innovation, production, consumption, waste, environment, sustainability
Note: This workshop relies on the supply of laptops and/or rollover schedule within Department of Education schools.
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