Sustainable Electronics: Lessons Learned from the RoHS and the Pb-free Transition

Handworker, Carol

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Title

Sustainable Electronics: Lessons Learned from the RoHS and the Pb-free Transition

Author(s)

Handworker, Carol

Issue Date

2012-11-05

Keyword(s)

• lead free solder
• lead free electronics
• electronics recycling

Abstract

Carol Handworker - Reinhardt Schuhmann Jr. Professor of Materials Engineering, Purdue University. With the impending ban on Pb in electronics in 2006, the consumer electronics industry world-wide began working together in the late '90's to define a standard Pb-free solder alloy for electronics manufacturing. The speed of the transition and the level of cooperation demonstrated in preparing industry to manufacture products with Pb-free solder provide benchmarks for sustainability-driven technology transitions in a rapidly changing global industry. What does this tell us about future changes in materials and processes as we learn more about the consequences of our electronics use?

Series/Report Name or Number

Sustainable Seminar Series

Type of Resource

• text
• still image

Language

en

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• https://youtu.be/viuD7tKGn_c
• http://hdl.handle.net/2142/106748

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