{"id":18551,"date":"2020-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.icrea.cat\/90th-icrea-breakfast-colloquium-please-dispose-after-use-designing-sustainable-single-use-sensing-devices-in-a-circular-economy-2\/"},"modified":"2020-01-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T23:00:00","slug":"90th-icrea-breakfast-colloquium-please-dispose-after-use-designing-sustainable-single-use-sensing-devices-in-a-circular-economy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icrea.cat\/es\/90th-icrea-breakfast-colloquium-please-dispose-after-use-designing-sustainable-single-use-sensing-devices-in-a-circular-economy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"90th ICREA BREAKFAST COLLOQUIUM &#8211; Please dispose after use: Designing sustainable single-use sensing devices in a circular economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers<\/strong>: ICREA Research Professor <strong>Neus Sabat\u00e9<\/strong> &amp; Dr. <strong>Juan Pablo Esquivel<\/strong>, CSIC Tenured Scientist (both from Institut de Microelectr\u00f2nica de Barcelona &#8211; CSIC)<\/p>\n<p><strong>When: <\/strong>21<sup>st<\/sup> of January 2020, 9:00h<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cataloniahotels.com\/en\/hotel\/catalonia-plaza-catalunya?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj76mscTo4AIV1_ZRCh0qwQhJEAAYASAAEgKuCfD_BwE\">Hotel Catalonia Plaza Catalunya<\/a>, Bergara, 11, 08002 Barcelona<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Abstract<\/span><\/strong><span>: <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Since the beginning of our century<\/span><span>, we have got used to throwing away our electronic devices and replace them with much modern and updated versions every couple of years. This has a tremendous environmental impact that is often disregarded. One of the components that is incorrectly discarded is also one the most hazardous: the battery. The most alarming factor is that batteries use and consumption is expected to rise significantly in the following years due to the growth of small-sized portable appliances in the internet-of-things scenario. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In view of this perspective, tightened environmental laws and increased provisions for recycling infrastructures (primary battery collection and processing) are urgently needed. However, this scenario is not conducive in the short-term in developing economies due to the high cost and complexity of implementation. Indeed, this may not be environmentally sustainable even for developed economies either; building-up costly and energy-consuming recycling plants to take care of the batteries generated along the linear \u201ctake-make-dispose\u201d path followed traditionally since the early days of industrialization entails a huge waste of natural resources, energy and labour. In this sense, the re-thinking of energy sources together with the electronic components that will be powered in a way that fits into a circular economy appears to be a promising path to meet the technological needs of current society without compromising future generations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The talk will address the solutions proposed by Sabate and Esquivel to supply sustainable energy to small-sized electronic products and to develop digital sensing devices with minimal electronic content as an example of the new generation of sustainable devices to come.<\/span><span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The ICREA colloquia are a great way to learn about remote fields of research from our best experts. 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