• Enabling the recycling of E-waste

    Team CORE is a student team from the Eindhoven University of Technology. By making use of a process called elementary retraction we are trying to bring us one step closer to the zero-age, a time where all waste ends up as new raw materials.

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Who we are

Team CORE is an ambitious student team from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) that operates out of Innovation Space. The team is nearly 30 members strong who come from almost all scientific departments. These members work together towards leveraging a very powerful technology called “elementary retraction” in order to create a fully circular solution for E-waste (and many other hard to process waste streams). The Team was created in 2018 and has since grown very rapidly, not only in size, but also in capability.

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Why we do it

The planet is running out of very precious materials like rare metals. This is happening because we are currently consuming most of our products, especially electronics, in a cradle-to-grave fashion. At the moment only 15-20% of all the e-waste is being “recycled”, the rest ends up in landfills somewhere in Asia or Africa. On top of that, the amount of e-waste is expected to grow by 8% per year. This is why we are working on closing this cycle, not only because these growing landfills are very harmful for the environment and the people living there, but also because there is a significant (socio)economical value within this “waste” in the form of metals and minerals.

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News

Active online presence

It is finally time. After some consideration the team has decided that there needs to be a stronger online presence. To do this we’re now actively going to update our followers on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn. On top… Read More

Team CORE

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