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Mon, 2012-10-08 00:26 — Kathy Gilbeaux
submitted by Samuel Bendett
inhabitat.com - by Morgana Matus - September 28, 2012
The Unites States generates more electronic waste than any other nation on earth. According to the EPA, more than 4.6 million tons entered domestic landfills in 2000, and 50-80% of our total e-waste is exported to developing nations where defunct electronics wind up in dumps, polluting the environment, and littering neighborhoods. That’s why 22-year-old engineering graduate Rachel Field has invented the Bicyclean – a pedal-powered grinder and e-waste separation system.
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Bicyclean Helps Recycle E-Waste in Developing Nations
The first prototype of the Bicyclean replaces the back wheel of a bicycle with a pedal-powered grinding wheel that pulverizes electronic waste. (Credit: Photo by Eliza Grinnell, SEAS Communications)
sciencedaily.com
July 1, 2013 — A slum on the outskirts of Accra, Ghana, received major media attention in 2010 and 2011 when the outside world realized where computers go to die.
Harvard undergraduate Rachel Field '12, an engineering sciences concentrator, read the news reports and devoted her senior thesis project to addressing the problem.
The result of her efforts is Bicyclean, a pedal-powered grindstone that pulverizes entire circuit boards inside a polycarbonate enclosure, capturing the dust.
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