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eReuse poster: the circular economy of digital devices

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Leandro Navarro,

David Franquesa,

Roc MeseguerAuthors Info & Claims

COMPASS '21: Proceedings of the 4th ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies

Pages 449 - 452

https://doi.org/10.1145/3460112.3471973

Published: 23 September 2021 Publication History

Abstract

eReuse is an initiative and action-research project that since 2015 has iterated over research and activism to understand, develop, apply to communities, evaluate and scale-up the circular economy of digital devices. The work, in partnership with diverse organisations, has contributed to the transition towards a circular economy of digital devices that contributes effectively to sustainable development.

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Roura MNavarro LMeseguer R(2022)Property Rights in Servitisation: A Practical Assessment with Reused ComputersAdvances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics10.1007/978-3-031-18311-9_2(17-35)Online publication date: 10-Nov-2022
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