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From YouTube: Using Blockchain to Reduce Electronic Waste and Make Recycling Commercial Viable - Nina Schmulius
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Using Blockchain to Reduce Electronic Waste and Make Recycling Commercial Viable - Nina Schmulius, 7479c
According to the UN report, we produced 53.6 million tons of e-waste in 2019. Less than 20 percent of it was collected and professionally recycled. What happened to the rest is uncertain. But it is assumed, that a lot of electronics ends up in garages or basements and never reaches recycling yards. We know also, that companies resell e-waste on a grand scale from countries like US, Germany or UK to nations like Ghana, India or Brazil. There the e-waste ends up in landfills, handled unprofessionally, poisoning humans and environment. Yet old devices are real gold mines: smartphones, laptops, refrigerators contain valuable metals and rare earths, their recycling is economically and ecologically worthwhile. So it is time to develop new solutions for how we deal with e-waste – one includes blockchain, that allows us to make the recycling process traceable for consumers.
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A
Welcome
to
my
talk,
it's
almost
10
50
here
in
berlin
and
I'm
very
happy
to
see
that
you
are
have
attended
to
my
talk
using
blockchain
to
reduce
electronic
waste
or
e-waste
and
make
recycling
commercially
viable.
My
name
is
nina
schmulius.
I
am
the
speaker
today
for
the
next
20
minutes
and
then
we
go
quickly
into
a
q
a
and
before
I
start,
I
just
like
to
thank
the
hyperledger
community,
the
linux
foundation
and
the
sponsors
accenture
and
ibm
for
inviting
me
to
speak
here.
A
A
Unfortunately,
my
system
faces
some
weird
problems
with
platform
open,
so
my
camera
might
drop
off
in
between
the
talk
and
I
might
be
even
quitted
out
of
the
talk,
because
the
hoping
platform
is
a
little
bit
too
much
for
my
system,
and
I
kindly
ask
you
to
stay
in
the
talk.
I
will
be
back
soon
and
I
also
apologize
for
this
more
or
less
unprofessional
frame
with
the
pdf
it's
the
best
settlement.
I
could
do
with
the
whole
pin
platform
not
to
over
load
the
system
yeah.
A
So,
let's
get
start,
let's
get
started
to
give
you
a
quick
impression.
What
we
are
talking
about
in
the
next
20
minutes
is,
of
course,
I'm
very
interested
who
is
joining
the
talk,
and
I
want
like
to
share
about
me
and
what
is
my
background?
Why
I'm
here
today,
then
I
want
to
talk
to
you
why
we
need
change.
A
A
While
I'm
talking
you
see
on
the
right
side,
you
see
a
bar
with
a
possibility
to
chat.
I
would
like
to
invite
you
to
to
chat
to
make
contact
with
with
each
other.
Please
share
your
name.
Please
share
what,
where
your
background
a
bit
about
what
you're
doing
and,
of
course,
if
you
like
the
town
that
you
are
in,
and
I
would
like
to
see
that
later
on
and
please
just
connect
to
each
other,
because
this
is
also
a
network,
a
community
event
and
that's
why
we
are
here,
isn't
it
so?
A
A
But
today,
I'm
speaking
to
you,
mostly
as
a
citizen
as
a
citizen
of
this
planet,
and
I
feel
the
urge
to
to
address
my
problems
that
I
especially
have
with
the
topic
of
e-waste
to
you
today
to
inspire
you
and
yeah
to
bring
some
new.
Hopefully
new
information
about
e-waste
and
things
that
are
connected
to
it
and
I'm
very
happy
to
be
part
of
your
community.
A
Today,
let's
jump
directly
into
the
e-waste,
why
we
need
change
and
why
I'm
talking
about
e-waste,
I
now
want
you
to
imagine
you
stand
in
front
of
a
massive
cruise
ship.
You
may
have
seen
them
lying
in
harbor.
Maybe
you
have
traveled
with
with
one
in
your
lifetime,
so
you
know
how
impressive
and
how
massive
those
ships
are,
and
it's
just
one,
but
I
now
want
you
to
imagine
you
stand
in
front
of
350
cruise
ships
and
now
your
mind
is
a
little
bit
like
this
one.
A
What
is
e-waste
in
general
to
give
you
a
quick
information
about
that
e-waste
is
everything
that
is
temperature
exchange
equipment
such
as
fridges
or
air
conditioners,
but
it
also
screen
and
monitors,
of
course,
its
lamps
large
equipment,
for
example
large
printers
in
company
small
equipment
like
calculators,
but
also
small
I.t
and
yeah,
your
laptop
or
your
smartphone.
That's
what
what
e-waste
defines.
A
So
I
said
before
only
20
is
recycled
or
even
less
than
20.
So
the
question
is
what
is
happening
to
the
other
80
percent?
Isn't
it
so
and
sorry,
but
we
don't
know
entirely
yet
what
we
know
so
far
is
that
there
is
a
lot
of
movement
of
e-waste,
mostly
from
high-income
countries
to
low-income
countries.
I
just
gave
you
here
an
example.
You
just
can
see
the
example
of
the
us,
so
the
u.s
ships
a
lot
of
e-waste
outside
to
countries
like
india,
brazil
to
nigeria,
to
ghana
yeah.
This
is
what
we
somehow
know.
A
So
what
is
the
problem
or
what
causes
such
a
movement
is
environmental
or
waste
colonialism,
what
we
mean
by
environmental
or
waste
colonialism?
This
is
scientific
definition,
is
all
movement
from
high
income
to
low-income
countries,
and
I
gave
you
the
example
of
the
us,
but
of
course
u.s
is
not
the
only
country
who
does
it
right?
So
it's
all
here
in
germany,
we
do
nearly
the
same.
A
But
it
also
I
mean
waste.
Colonism
is
also
the
the
kind
of
that
you
know
about
that.
Waste
is
shipped
out
like
I,
like
you
see
here
in
the
quote.
Malaysia
sent
4000
tons
of
plastic
trash
back
to
rich
countries,
but
it's
also
not
only
about
the
trash
that
is
going
around.
It's
also
about
that
indigenous
people
are
suffering
from
the
moment
that
we
need
raw
materials
a
lot
and
they
suffer
from
displacement.
A
A
Smartphones
and
laptops
contain
a
lot
of
precious
metals
such
as
gold
and
silver
right
and
mining.
Those
raw
materials
accelerates,
global
warming,
raw
materials
are
also
becoming
scarce,
and
80
to
90
percent
of
our
raw
materials
are
coming
only
from
china
since
pandemic
started.
This
has
led
to
many
problems
like
delays
in
supply
chain
or
even
delivery.
A
Also,
businesses
change
a
lot
of
shifts
and
new
needs
since
the
past
years.
One
of
course,
is
also
climate
change,
businesses
always
say
yeah.
Why
should
I
care
for
climate
change?
I
mean
I
don't
have
a
problem
here
right,
but
that's
not
true.
So,
as
you
see
I
I
brought
you.
Some
quotes
from
forbes
and
cnn
business
and
climate
change
is
really
cost
intensive
for
businesses.
A
A
A
It
still
hangs
in
a
fire
station
somewhere
in
us,
and
it
still
you
can
still
watch
it
burning.
So
you
can
see
the
live
videos
there.
So
you
know
100
years
ago
the
companies
decided
to
go
for
planned
obsolescence
and
of
course
this
is
also
a
major
threat
or
a
major
problem
of
e-waste
right
because
it
accelerates
already
e-waste.
A
Another
topic
I
found
out
during
my
research
for
the
past
two
years
about
e-waste
is
that
consumers
do
not
know
about
the
value
of
their
waste,
so
this
is
pretty.
I
just
point
to
myself,
because
I
have
three
old
laptops
at
home
and
also
three
old
smartphones
right.
So
it's
it's
not
about
you
only
it's
also
about
absolutely
me.
A
So
what
is
the
the
facts
behind
I
found
out
during
my
research.
Of
course,
there
are
already
solutions
such
as
fairphone
or
google
came
up
with
the
google
error
project
right,
which
could
be
easily
to
switch
components
once
they
are
broken,
but
due
to
my
experience
of
20
years
in
marketing
in
corporate
communications,
I
know
that
people
buy
lifestyles
right,
I'm
the
best
example.
I
love
apple
and
I
have
everything
of
apple
right,
so
I
never
switch
sorry
to
another
system
right.
That's
it.
People
buy
lifestyles,
they
buy
systems,
not
solutions.
Unfortunately,.
A
A
Let
me
sum
it
up,
unfortunately,
until
nowadays,
yet
consuming
devices
grabs
more
attention
than
the
e-waste
it
costs
or
the
way
it
is
manufactured
right,
but
I'm
sure
this
will
change
soon
and
why
I'm
so
sure,
two
weeks
ago
I
attended
in
paris
or
virtually
in
paris
to
the
change
now
gathering
the
the
largest
world
gathering
for
impact
on
planet,
and
I
always
heard
in
every
talk
that
people
want
to
live
in
alignment
with
their
values
and
companies
providing
that
will
thrive.
So
that
brings
us
to
our
beautiful
solution.
A
Let
us
turn
problems
into
solutions,
people,
let
us
rebalance
earth.
The
time
is
now,
and
one
solution
could
be
that
you
include
knowing
and
caring
for
e-waste
and
the
manufacturing
process
into
ethical
consumerism
right
so
normally
or
until
now,
we'll
just
starting
from
source
to
product
and
look
on
this
part
of
the
supply
chain.
But
we
should
look
more.
We
should
look
behind
the
product,
we
should
look,
what
causes
the
waste
or
which
race
is
caused,
and
also
we
should
look
more
close
to
the
manufacturing
process.
When
we
talk
about
ethical
consumerism,.
A
A
In
the
third
topic,
linked
to
e-waste
could
be
empowerment
of
urban
mining
instead
of
linear
practices,
we
could
start
thinking
circular
and
make
recycling
commercially
viable
through
that
process.
And
what
do
I
mean
when
I
talk
about
urban
mining?
It
is
the
city
or
to
look
at
the
city
as
a
raw
material
deposit,
so
the
raw
materials
are
next
to
the
my
neighbor's
door
yeah.
A
A
There
we
haven't
solved
one
problem:
the
role
of
businesses.
What
could
businesses
help
us
to
do
all
those
solutions?
Thriving-
and
my
answer,
of
course,
is:
let's
talk,
blockchain
right,
maybe
you're
familiar
with
using
blockchain
on
supply
chain
and
businesses
could
enable
consumers
to
trace
their
raw
materials
through
recycling
processes.
A
Just
to
give
you
some
inspiration
about
the
possibilities,
blockchain
could
be
used
as
a
lecture
here
for
the
reward
system,
or
also
to
trace
each
component.
You
know
nowadays,
it's
possible
to
build
a
digital
twin
on
blockchain,
so
you
could
easily
trace
each
component
of
a
laptop,
for
example,
or
a
smartphone,
because
sometimes
only
the
plastic
from
a
laptop
is
recycled,
but
not
the
entire
device
itself.
A
How
could
it
work
just
a
small
graphic?
I
don't
want
to
take
it
too
far,
because
it's
as
I
said,
I
don't
want
to
put
my
startup
in
in
the
center
of
this
talk.
I
just
want
to
talk
to
you
and
give
you
some
inspiration
about
it.
You
can
easily
trace
devices
from
the
beginning
of
the
manufacturing
process,
even
nowadays
from
from
the
sources
of
raw
material,
raw
material
mining.
A
A
Blockchain
has
already
become
a
driving
force
for
open
supply
chains
and
for
transparent
supply
chains.
Right
so
imagine,
blockchain
would
become
a
driving
force
in
open
reverse
supply
chains
so
that
you
have
a
completely
transparent
value
chain
for
e-waste.
That
would
be
absolutely
brilliant
right.
According
to
the
problems
I
mentioned,
what
would
we
achieve?
A
We
would
know
where
the
last
80
percent
of
53.6
million
metric
tons
of
e-waste
would
be.
We
would
make
sure
that
the
waste
is
recycled.
We
will
thrive.
Urban
mining,
empower
citizenship,
reduce
climate
change
or
at
least
slow
it
down.
We
would
be
also
rebalance
inequalities
and
stop
environmental
colonialism,
and
these
are
just
ghosts.
A
I
never
made
up
myself.
These
are
goats
linked
to
the
sustainable
development
goals
of
united
nations,
of
course,
and
I
think
this
model
could
be
a
benefit
for
citizens,
because
we
are
all
citizens,
even
if
you
work
at
ibm,
you're
still
a
citizen
of
this
planet,
and
it
could
help
us
to
really
achieve
those
goals.
So
I'd
like
to
thank
you
for
your
attention.
A
A
Thank
you
matthew,
that's
incredible!
Yes,
I
invite
you
to
contact
me
directly
if
you
like
so
and
yeah
I'm
happy
to.
If
you
want
to
help
me,
that's
great
thanks
peter
for
sharing
thanks
dorothy,
yes,
for
the
reminder,
and
yes
are
there
any
questions
you
have
you
can,
if
you
like,
if
you
like,
you
can
type
it
in
the
chat.
I
normally
goes
with
questions
like
okay.
Do
we
need
do
we
need
aya,
the
q?
A
excuse
me
sorry,
yes
matthew
or
no.
We
start
with
takuma
thanks
for
the
question
takuma.
A
Are
there
any
groups
already
discussing
e-waste?
I
just
can
answer
it
from
the
perspective
of
a
german
right,
so
we
have
a
lot
of
groups
here
in
germany
discussing
e-waste.
One
is
the
group
that
is
absolutely
for
berlin,
and
also
I
can
recommend
you
to
to
look
at
the
donut
groups
formed
by
the
donut
theory
of
kate
rovers,
who
is
also
interested
in
seeing
the
holistic
picture
of
waste
and
economy
so
matthew.
Does
the
technology
exist
to
be
able
to
recover
these
raw
materials
from
e-waste?
A
A
I
think
it's
bacteria
to
to
recover
precious
metals
from
waste,
and
they
did
it
in
a
way
which
is
commercially
viable,
because
this
is
the
pain
point
about
recycling
right
to
do
things
in
a
matter
that
the
costs
are
not
expanding
right.
So
the
the
name
is
mint
innovation,
peter.
Are
there
currently
recycling
systems
that
can
be
updated
with
blockchain?
A
A
So
there
is
a
notion
that
blockchain
and
its
need
for
several
nodes
itself
contributes
to
acceptance.
You
yeah
yeah.
How
do
you
see
yeah?
How
do
I
see
that
right?
Thanks
for
the
question?
Kartik?
That's
incredible!
Yes,
I'm
I'm
thinking
about
that
a
lot
to
be
honest
and
if
you're
a
bit
familiar
with
blockchain,
then
you
know
that
mining
bitcoin
is
in
the
center
of
this
discussion
right.
So
that's
one
aspect
of
it,
but
the
other
aspect
you
are
totally
right.
I
think
there
are
several
blockchains
using
several
kind
of
energy
amounts.
A
A
From
my
perspective,
to
be
honest,
so
so
I'm
yeah,
I'm
looking
of
course
to
that
there
will
something
come
up
with
a
less
use
of
energy
thanks
for
the
question,
but
it's
really
really
absolutely
necessary
to
discuss
that.
So,
for
example,
for
my
startup,
I'm
doing
a
life
cycle
assessment
to
look
if
this
is
also
causing
more
damage
or
if
this
is
really
a
solution
that
can
help
us
to
reduce
the
energy
problem.
A
Thanks
yeah
ernest.
Thank
you
so
much.
How
do
I
incentivize
all
the
stakeholders
in
the
value
chain
to
ensure
you
have
a
complete
traceability
record
in
the
blockchain
right?
So
yeah?
That's
that's
another
topic,
I'm
thinking
about
a
lot,
but
there
are
already
people
who
have
solved
that
problem
and
once
er
one
is
the
startup
provenance
in
based
in
london.
A
A
Thanks
a
lot
for
your
questions,
if
there's
any
question
left
here,
please
go
ahead
and
reach
out
later.
If
you
want
to,
I
will
also
be
attending
to
other
sessions
at
hyperledger,
global
forum
and
yeah.
I
can
just
tell
you
these
guys
and
girls.
You
have
to
say
an
incredible
community.
I
know
from
the
special
interest
group
that
they're
already
also
working
on
this
energy
problem
and
a
lot
of
stuff,
and
yes,
I'm
very
happy
if
you
just
go
and
join
our
special
interest
groups.
A
Peter
thanks.
7479C
is
building
a
platform
and
app
to
inform
people,
consumers
and
businesses
about
raw
materials
and
to
enable
them
to
trace
them
through
the
entire
recycling
process,
and
also
we
are
empowering
recycling
by
donating
a
percentage
of
our
revenue
to
build
professional
recycling
facilities
wherever
it
is
needed
and
we're
a
startup
and
yeah.
We
are
here
in
berlin,
so
whenever
you
want
to
reach
out
I'm
very
happy.
Thank
you.
Peter.