(eng) Ingredients of (fair) electronics – english translation
Channel: media.ccc.de
Date: 16/04/2022

https://media.ccc.de/v/divoc_bb3-48295-zutaten-der-fairen-elektronik


We show how the material footprint of an electronic device can be calculated using publicly available data.

To assess the sustainability of electronic devices, you need to know what's inside. This is because the raw materials it contains can be used, for example, to assess whether human rights violations are to be expected during the extraction of raw materials.

Finding out the raw material composition of a device is not so easy when it consists of many individual components about which only partial data is available. To fill this gap, we crawled publicly available data and used a clustering algorithm to develop a method to infer the composition of unknown components. In this way, we can transfer the knowledge from the publicly available datasets to other components and track down the ingredients of fair electronics.

Sebastian Jekutsch 
Lara Pfennigschmidt 
xian

https://pretalx.c3voc.de/divoc-bb3/talk/WG7AKU/

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