Digital Devices (IMAGE)

Yale School of the Environment

Digital Devices

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To amass the data necessary for their study, the authors used material flow analysis. They focused on 20 categories of digital devices — including computers, smartphones, digital cameras, and audio-visual equipment — and disassembled dozens of products in a lab in order to determine the relative content of various important elements.

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Yale School of the Environment

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