ELECTRONICS Beyond silicon: Exploring new materials for future electronics

 https://www.fierceelectronics.com/electronics/beyond-silicon-exploring-new-materials-future-electronics

EU Raw Minerals information System

 

Raw Minerals information System EU

An introduction to engineering materials and processes, and CES EduPack as a database of information.

https://grantadesign.com/teachingresources/pptmaten18/

Toxic TECH : Chemicals in Electronic Products

https://www.greenpeace.org/archive-international/Global/international/planet-2/report/2005/5/toxic-tech-chemicals-in-elec.pdf

Confict Free Mineral Legislation in the US and EU

https://www.fairphone.com/2014/04/16/conflict-free-mineral-legislation-in-the-us-and-eu/

El coltán, la telefonía móvil y su problemática socioecológica

http://www.terra.org/articulos/art01632.html

More information on:

http://svtc.org/wp-content/uploads/bfr_report_pages1-43.pdf

The list of toxic components in computers includes:
• Computer circuit boards containing heavy metals such as lead & cadmium
• Computer batteries containing cadmium
• Cathode ray tubes with lead oxide & sometimes barium
• Brominated flame-retardants used in printed circuit boards, cables and plastic casing.
• Poly Vinyl Chloride (PVC) coated copper cables and plastic computer casings that
release highly toxic dioxins & furans when burned
• Mercury switches
• Mercury in flat panel screens
• Poly Chlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) present in older capacitors & transformers

from:

Poison PCs and Toxic TVs (document força antic)
http://svtc.org/wp-content/uploads/ppc-ttv1.pdf

Sillicon Valley Toxics Coallition

http://svtc.org/

What's in electronic devices. Greenpace.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/toxics/electronics/the-e-waste-problem/what-s-in-electronic-devices/

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/reports/not-in-our-backyard/