A European project is looking at ways to boost the use of recycled plastic in electronics using blockchain for traceability.
Just 2% of today’s recycled plastic materials are used in electronics, compared to the building and construction sector (46%), the packaging sector (24%) and the agriculture sector (13%).
Using recycled plastic in electronics would correspond to around 80,000 tonnes of recycled materials in new designs, against an annual theoretical market potential of 2,100,000 tonnes in the EU.
While there have been some moves to using recycled materials in electronics with a mouse from Microsoft, there has been limited adoption of the materials:
The INCREACE project, funded by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA) of the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Cluster 4 programme, aims to increase the uptake of recycled plastics in electronics.
By using recycled plastics from electrical and electronic waste (WEEE), the INCREACE project will tackle...
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