By Electronics recycling From the U.S. is growing as the industry consolidates and evolves. The future of electronics recycling – at least in the U.S., and possibly globally – will be driven by electronics engineering, precious metals, and business structure, particularly. Although there are things that may influence the business – like consumer electronics collections, laws and regulations and export problems – I think these 3 variables will have a profound effect on the future of electronics recycling. The most recent data On the sector – from a poll conducted by the International Data Corporation IDC and sponsored by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries ISRI – discovered that the sector in 2010 handled approximately 3.5 million tons of electronic equipment with earnings of $5 billion and directly employed 30,000 people – and that it is been growing at about 20 percent annually for the last decade But will this expansion continue.
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Volumes managed by the electronics industry have been dominated by computer equipment. But recent reports by IDC and Gartner show that shipments of notebook and desktop computers have declined by over 10 percent and the shipments of smartphones and tablets today exceed that of PCs. Approximately 1 billion phones will be sent – and for the first time exceed the volumes of electronic recycling companies singapore. What do these Technology trends imply to the electronics industry Do these improvements in technology, which contribute to dimension reduction, lead to smaller substances footprint and less complete volume by weight Since mobile devices e.g., smart phones, tablets already represent larger volumes than PCs – and likely turn over faster – they will most likely dominate the future volumes entering the recycling stream. And they are not only smaller, but cost less than PCs. And laptops are being replaced by ultra-books in addition to tablets – meaning that the equivalent is a great deal smaller and less.
So with increasing quantities of electronic equipment, decreasing may be begun by the weight volume entering the flow processors that are Normal weigh 15-20 pounds. Conventional notebook computers weigh 5-7 pounds. But the new ultra-books weigh 3-4 lbs. Therefore, if computers including monitors have included about 60 percent of the complete industry input by weight and TVs have included a large part of the volume of consumer electronics roughly 15 percent of the business input volume – up to 75 percent of the input volume could be subject to the weight reduction of new technologies – possibly up to a 50 percent decrease. And, similar technology change and dimension reduction is happening in different markets – e.g., telecommunications, industrial, medical, etc.
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