in viruses business model used to sell their refurbished equipment more than 50 people in work here showing him it ever since he started working with one virus of collecting i've been able to support my from line up and they get health insurance and had no problem doing it for my children's education for. your with. rhonda is seen as the i.t. innovation harbin east africa that's why this sector is attractive to the younger generation it attracts people like that it we're all eric. he left school early but begun collecting electronic was 2 and he was 17 now he has his own company employing 35 people. to get requests to reach a group we buy these electronics from different places and from people who don't need it yet but for us these electronics are valuable after collection we saw electronic equipment to separate the ones which can be reused and resold after being repaired. if you did mark the government wants to make sure the countryside

doesn't get clogged up with a bundle in west so it has imposed strict regulation. as one day set up a horrible. technology we want to seduce developing in a sustainable way with the green aisle here and environmental friendly technology because we want to see our countries developing but with minimal impact in terms of environmental consequences markets cool laptops are given to pupils for free. since you have started using computers so. many things has changed this shouldn't have started to knowing that he did this source of information is and is not on a day to day brady they can no longer imagine life without them and they know these laptops won't go to waste but will be recycled so most to dance can benefit to.

electric vehicles a growing popular in europe they are called. to renewables and he won't show we've also looked many examples. that's right sondra the problem is some people say electoral mobility is good for the environment while both points to the toxic substances contained in the car batteries until now only about a 3rd of those chemicals could be was separated and reclaim it but now a company in germany has this come about a way to push up the recycling efficiency considerably germany is car country statistically every 2nd president owns an automobile christiane harnish does to the engineer also knows that when old cars end up in the junkyard a mountain of scrap and waste discreated hunnish wants to salvage and recycle as much of the old cars as he can and he'd like to make

a living from it. christiane hunnish founder of a small company that recycles car batteries it specializes in batteries for electric vehicles which contain a lot of valuable raw materials especially metals but it's not easy to extract them and it can also be dangerous. but that didn't discourage the businessman. i think me the batteries are already out there so it makes sense to extract the raw materials and reuse them we saw the huge potential in that. 10 years ago the process engineer founded the dews infeld company this special shredder is at the heart of the firm it shreds the scrap batteries turning them into a granular. there's a good reason for the thick steel plates in the machine they protect the inner walls from the liquid components in the battery electrolyte which is highly explosive. finding a way to separate the electrolyte from other components was the biggest challenge

they took on is 10 years of drawing calculating and testing now the pure battery fluid flows into a steel tank this is the electrolyte fluid and no one else can do that. the company sells it to the chemical industry the granulate from the scrap batteries lands in the sorting machine which results in a raised powder. at 1st glance it doesn't look like it's worth much. thought it would be fooled this is the fuel for electro modality it contains lithium cobalt nickel and manganese and that's what we want to extract. to do that tarnish needed experts on chemical processes he found them at a university close by professor to o.b.s. albert knows exactly which acids can be used to extract the precious metals without dissolving them but isolating numerous metals from the great powder is a challenge even for the specialist in hydro metallurgy he was so taken with the

idea that he became a partner at does in fact. eventually a method was developed that breaks down the great powder step by step into its components cobalt sulfate lithium carbonate nickel sulfate and manganese sulfate. in this pure form the precious raw materials can be used in the production of batteries. on high school couldn't pick the i wanted to keep the impact on nature as small as possible it's naturally desirable to keep the cycle of raw materials are small as possible. the dusun failed company has proven that it can extract precious metals from batteries albeit on a small scale soon though these special shredders will be placed at various locations around europe. being a mr shell not the recyclable powder but the precious metals are that a specialized chemical factory is needed. finding here the one i do

a lot of thinking about it all but it's wonderful when you see that what you come up with is being put into effect. dusun felt has already reached a recycling rate of 91 percent per battery the standard is just 32 percent as a pioneer in recycling christiane harnish has shown what's possible. that's a promising development in mobile it's a sector it's encouraging to know that people all over the world i working hard to reduce the amount of how we do to nature are 9 burma i might report creature of the woman who is able to see beauty in things out others do not write seem all. pretty cool earrings right well damage from the west these comfy chairs are also just like these funky coffee table design

a painting turns trash into treasure she finds her room experience and book grows she dumpsite for electronic waste it's a place where old computers and keyboards wind up along with stacks of car tires the smell of burning rubber fills the air a lot of people here upon the trash to recover pieces of coal power that they can sell on but again it's not. she's on the lookout for inspiration. wastes to get the positives for you so would the final solution to this problem so not all small we do need to get. the house full we used. to use this for. this scrap yard has an ominous nickname. it's about the size of 20 so-called fields which means there's plenty of material

for my children to sort through. she comes over time so weak and this time abuse computer circuit boards have caught her eye. what cuts going to work with anything whether it's broken all is new or is all those that's what was is that's what we call them once in a while command a store final for the tools for real. the 1st stage of the transformation is a good clean then the material is cut into smaller pieces. and send it down to make smooth ages finally matilda paint puts the finishing touches to how unique earrings. matilda's projects require time and teamwork spaces are biggest challenge we don't have a bigger space so we can also employ more and we can do more. for us on the 2nd one

is machine as you can see around we have just simple tools that will work with what the team certainly isn't lacking is imagination they can try on all generate electric scrap into lampshades tables or clocks. matilda paint regularly exhibits have designs on conferences objects not only like a chink they are opening to i think rather than take all this amazing stuff that all this money has been poured into and just put the world with it why not turn it into art a lot of places across the world we're having a problem with an increase in ways i'd like managing the ways to getting rid of it matilda pain has won several awards. creative way of doing heartbeat for the environment and she has even bigger thanks planned for the company. we are looking at being able to move with me therefore we have to train more women

to venture into what praetorian now to be able to start your own businesses who would also like to empower the youth expression which we can't enter prison is like us for every item sold. already donates 5 percent of the money she makes to the education of underprivileged young girls she doesn't only want to bring these candidate items back to life she also wants to give something back to society . a great idea for the environment and for education too if you have any more ideas why our contractors and social media i show us what you've managed to do with your ways our military where i'm afraid it's time to say so long see you next week i just want to repeat one number from our show before you go 57000000000 u.s. dollars that is how much the world electronic waste was worth in 2019 so remember

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