Analysis Of 'E-Structors'
Summary
The video starts by introducing the e-waste recycling company “E-Structors” and its CEO, Julie Keough. She then goes on to explain how the company deconstructs dysfunctional electronics and extracts the minerals (gold, silver, copper, and palladium) within.
The narrator then tells the viewer that E-Structors has EPA certification, which means that they handle their materials with care.
After that, Julie Keough tells the viewer about how sometimes an auditor will come to inspect their facility, and how they have to prove to him/her that they are following the rules and their partners are doing the same.
The viewer gets told that The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA for short) believes that over 80% of electronic …show more content…
In my mind it is not even remotely okay to treat any living thing, especially a fellow human, like that, I do not know if the situation has changed at all since the video was produced, but I would certainly hope so and in the positive …show more content…
Within a few years at best. Maybe the idea had a better chance of succeeding in 2011 but I strongly doubt it, by the fact that I have not heard about Æsir anywhere before I read the article. The best somewhat related idea I have heard of is “Phonebloks”, a project from 2012 with the idea of having a phone made of individual components all connected by a grid of holes on the back of it. But even though the modular design seems more upgradable, and even though they got a lot of backers on Kickstarter, the project was canceled in late
The video starts by introducing the e-waste recycling company “E-Structors” and its CEO, Julie Keough. She then goes on to explain how the company deconstructs dysfunctional electronics and extracts the minerals (gold, silver, copper, and palladium) within.
The narrator then tells the viewer that E-Structors has EPA certification, which means that they handle their materials with care.
After that, Julie Keough tells the viewer about how sometimes an auditor will come to inspect their facility, and how they have to prove to him/her that they are following the rules and their partners are doing the same.
The viewer gets told that The United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA for short) believes that over 80% of electronic …show more content…
In my mind it is not even remotely okay to treat any living thing, especially a fellow human, like that, I do not know if the situation has changed at all since the video was produced, but I would certainly hope so and in the positive …show more content…
Within a few years at best. Maybe the idea had a better chance of succeeding in 2011 but I strongly doubt it, by the fact that I have not heard about Æsir anywhere before I read the article. The best somewhat related idea I have heard of is “Phonebloks”, a project from 2012 with the idea of having a phone made of individual components all connected by a grid of holes on the back of it. But even though the modular design seems more upgradable, and even though they got a lot of backers on Kickstarter, the project was canceled in late