the right to repair is important in recycling. Keep that in mind when corporations push to outlaw it. Reparablity is counter big biz, since it elongates the time an item is used, and thus also the time until a new one is purchased. Recycling and repair are essential to sustainability.

@co-jt6gd

10 ай бұрын

Well said.

@richardj.chaparrosr.9810

10 ай бұрын

👌🏼👍🏼🙂💯💯💯

@zen1647

10 ай бұрын

100%

@PraetorianAU

9 ай бұрын

Good luck with that in corporate America where the all mighty dollar rules all. Right to repair shouldn't even be a thing being discussed but this is how far gone you guys are in the US. To you it may seem normal, to the rest of us, it's insanity.

@co-jt6gd

9 ай бұрын

@@PraetorianAU Believe me, being American myself, I know the right to repair should be normal, but big tech companies just want money from impulsive (often younger) consumers rather than serve their people!

Meanwhile most balcony apartments prevent installing solar panels because aesthetics and strata regulations.....

@guilleport

2 ай бұрын

Unfortunately 😢

Great documentary. It’s great to see good people working to make some difference

@DWDocumentary

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@zen1647

10 ай бұрын

​@@DWDocumentaryIt's great to have uplifting news periodically!

DW consistently hits relevant issues and really helps me understand a whole wold i'm not able to be exposed to with other sources.

@MrChillerNo1

10 ай бұрын

Try also "Democracy Now" and "Beau of the fifth column" (comentary/context).

@tristanboyle4450

10 ай бұрын

@@MrChillerNo1 cheers

@MrChillerNo1

10 ай бұрын

@@tristanboyle4450 You're welcome. Part of my daily routine Democracy now's Headlines (~10min), and all the beau's of the day (~30min.) If Im interested in specifics (interviews, focus points) DW and Democracy now. Granted they all are more to the left of mainstream, but they all do excellent reports. The choice what to report on is always biased, no matter the news. The important question is: "Does it inform you, or does it inflame you?" These sources inform. Have a good one!

Thank you for presenting this hopeful film. It is greatly encouraging to see that the generation which will be alive in the next decades is working to offer the new thinking needed for a better future.

@DWDocumentary

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Some companies code parts in cellphones so they can not be interchanged for repairs. The part will fit but a message will appear stating a non-approved replacement was installed (even if it is produced in the same brand factory). This may cause of loss of features.

@katejudson8907

10 ай бұрын

Yep. Fairphones are a great alternative for this reason.

Framework laptops are also repairable. Even the motherboard can be replaced. They also sell repair parts. If you are so inclined, you can assemble the laptop yourself

@spicychad55

10 ай бұрын

are they any good?

excellent documentary. we need such initiatives for the kids to have a healthy future

@sidali2590

3 ай бұрын

Agree

I have a deep appreciation for DW Documentary - it's truly captivating! I wanted to take a moment to express my heartfelt gratitude to the wonderful DW Team.

The whole point of companies like Apple and others building devices that can't be repaired is so they can sell more. The problem isn't the tech. It's the incentives our economic model provides.

i am hobbyist from India and make lots of random electronics project. i purchase all the expensive parts for projects from scrap dealers. like igbt , mosfets , chips ,ic's , large bulk capacitors , precision resistors. and they are 10x cheaper than buying a new part with similar specs , and for hobby project that would be dismantled in a month or two i save a lot of money from going used and do not need to cry when things explode.

DW Documentary ..... always the best!

Renting...interesting. The balcony power idea is so simple but so good.

I love to see news like this! People solving problems! That's the best news in these troubled times~

Thank you for sharing all this info on reuse and recycle of e-waste!

@DWDocumentary

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great relevance....thanks DW!

Amazing Documentary DW❤️❤️❤️

@DWDocumentary

Ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and for the feedback!

DW my favorite channel 😩

Framework also sells repairable and modular laptops

7:35 so there’s a commercial air filtration system or some kind of osha safety equipment? Or is that why they aren’t employees?

Thanks for posting

@DWDocumentary

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Another wonderful documentary( video) that serves environments and the creative of businesses ...,,through recycling ♻️ e-waste stuffs....it was a good and incredibly environmental enlightening documentary...thank you ( DW) documentary channel for sharing

@DWDocumentary

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Solar panels would make nice outdoor tables

Right to Repair!!! I wish that was law in America. I found Fairphone that sells in America but dang it, my old phone broke while they had no supplies in stock and I went with a normal wasteful phone. Teracube seems like another decent brand.

Good documentary. We can save a lot of material. Few things that i learned from recycling 1) second law of thermodynamics restrict the recycling of all materials if product is made of mixed materials ( alloying, chemical reaction etc) 2) as technology products recycling is not natural thing we have to handle is by ourself i mean humans. Though nature is not 100% efficient but highly effective is handling waste this doesn't exist for technology product. 3) there will be always waste product even after recycling( the chemical reaction we use to take materials out, tradeoff for precious metals). We also need to handle that residue waste effectively nature cant take it. Mostly will be heavy metals. 4) now imagine we will have some 8 billion people surviving for next 100 years how much materials we need to go for clean energy and recycling them again. Thats insane 😅. I have hopes though we could.

Great documentary!

@DWDocumentary

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

This is crazy 🔥

@ 1:52 I can buy the lates generation of solar cells from Trina Solar (425w model) for 120E tax included ... If the traders were less greedy we would all have something to gain... if tou have limited space why waste it with an inferior product? !!!! The place for old generation panels is on desertified fields or where there is plenty of space, where the land is worth nothing so that you can use panels with lower qualities without space constraints…

They must make products that lasts for 50 years in order to combat this problem

@FlyingDwarfman

10 ай бұрын

Governments must implement legislation to force companies to do that. Voters (in democratic countries) must pressure their governments to do that. Otherwise, no company with that business model can be successful competing in the current global market. All incentives push them toward products with short lifespans that are annoying/ impossible for the consumer to repair.

if only the government made companies supply the parts, which a lot dont therefore we cant repair them.

@TokenBlackman7

10 ай бұрын

B-But... THAT would negatively effect corporate profits. Oh-no!! 😐

i think ill start a recycling business for e-waste..

I still use a decade old laptop. Everyone should use their gadgets as long as possible. Try to be a good human being

Just dropping in to say the thumbnail is epic.

Luar biasa mantab 👍👍👍👍

I have never had a laptop I have not fixed… to keep it alive! I have never brought new replacement parts, I have just looked for one that has a fault that has no impact for me such as crack hinges… this is possible on everything but the brands that put software to block it! I 100% support the right to repair! I am surprised companies in lower labour cost nations do not build devices to rival smart home devices from used phones ( think of all the galaxy s4’s out there!) swap the camera for a wide angle camera, design a fashionable box build an app and that’s a home door bell… get contracts to offer recycling of e waste to phone suppliers with a duty to dispose of waste. Something I learned selling used and waste items: refurbish is worth more than used which is worth a lot more than scrap! You just have to find the market or application for which people will buy it!

We live in a disposable Society now & it is so easy to just buy instead of repair but then there is the issue of the "Right to Repair" which includes Mobile Phones, Washing Machines, Tractors etc but so many Manufacturers like John Deere will not release certain details that would enable a repair to be completed, so what does the Consumer do-scrap the machine or get ripped off by the manufacturer?

good stuff

I live now in the Philippines. On this PC I am using I was able to upgrade the motherboard pretty easily at no great cost at a local Mall with an electronic store for no great charge.

@richardj.chaparrosr.9810

10 ай бұрын

🙄😏🥴😉🤷🏽‍♂️

Good video

Hey, I want this way of recycling too!!!

8:40 At the guy's right foot is a stack of toroidal transformers - it would be senseless to recycle those, as they are highly more efficient than iron-core transformers.

often you can just change the diodes inside a panel and it works again..

I like that EUR is going to force Apple to have replaceable batteries. That will mean that other brands will have to as well and the companies will design a singular version rather than one separate for the EU and America will have battery switch options. My last phone was only replaced after 7years b/c the battery killed itself to death.

@mandrakethemadcoder

10 ай бұрын

7 years? I've replaced most of mine within 2-3 years due to some fault *other* than the battery. Or simply from them being obsolete software-wise. You'll end up paying for the replaceable battery in the long run. Devices will be thicker, more complicated mechanically, prone to bad contacts etc.

@FlyingDwarfman

10 ай бұрын

@@mandrakethemadcoder Bad contracts? You have no understanding of cell phones outside the US, then? Unlocked phones are the norm in every other developed nation in the world.

@mandrakethemadcoder

10 ай бұрын

@@FlyingDwarfman Contacts, not contracts.

cool, didn't know solar panels could be recycled like that...

I prefer fixing staff, I usually buy electronic as broken fix them and resale or use them myself, example my current PC use B550 Mainboard bought with missing few SMD and broken trace. My last buy is B650 mainboard bend and missing pins in cpu socket I straight them and check that missing are reductant now working fine but lost one dram slot now only 3 working board cost me 45Euro most shipping and customs tax :P Also my curent GPU is Sapphire GPRO X080 mining edition of Rx 6700 no display outputs few line of code to system registry and fresh bios and now I have image via iGPU and gpu cost me only 1/3 price ;) If only we get access to block diagrams fixing staff and replace part will be more easy due this I not touching Apple products due design is specially made to be as hard to fix as possible. Also worst thing that happen to customer electronics was forcing to use lead free solder due this GPUs and CPU fail few time more often, interesting things that aviation, space, military and nuclear electronics banned use lead free solder due reliability issue.

I don't buy new device unless its completely stop working. My NOTE10 is 3 years old, hopefully it'll continue to work 😅

@katejudson8907

10 ай бұрын

Me too. I have a very basic ASUS that has been running opensource programs perfectly for 9 years!

@muxsinmahamoud7468

9 ай бұрын

S8 6 years

Good people

How to by solar recycling machine in India

Dam, they are getting good money for copper in India 10EU per Kg. In Australia all I get is $8Au to $10Au per Kg that is almost half the money.

electronic industry can produce parts rather than the whole thing and if consumers want to upgrade their gadget then they can get new one by buy out their gadget, but this can lead to planned obsolence of parts, so what best solutions then ?

@katejudson8907

10 ай бұрын

Fairphone.

@bobsthea

10 ай бұрын

@@katejudson8907 hopefully they stick to their marketing plan and not going to be like apple's and samsung's

The term sustainability is banded about at point of sale but, as this documentary shows, one should think about total cost of life (instead of vanity projects and sometimes a cult-like ideology). Equally, working in harmony with nature instead of trying to control and manipulate nature (or the nature of human beings).

Shouldn't it be possible for companies like APPLE and Samsung to produce repair easy products which can be used for longer than the current harder to repair devices which contains the components those are glued or soldered making it a disaster.

Planned obscelence is a threat to Sustainable goals of individuals, nations, human societies and environment and earth at large. Its a business practice that is prevalent all sectors of consumer products. The policy change by these consumer goods industry would be great deal in sustainable development goals of human societies.

Very guod video OK ❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

the reality is that most companies now days dasnt care about the e-waste and right to repair no matter what this Documentary try to tell the reality is many modern devices is unrepairable a good example off this is smartphones many new smartphone 📱 don't have easy way to open and on top off that the have add battery the is not remoble easily the have get as far to add strong glue in the battery in the order to not remove easily what Im try to say is not only the don't make the game easily repairable but tho make hoarder repair on purpose in the order to sell more products and have more profits

Also "Planned Obsolescence".

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8:00 If the eco company were able to find these illegal premises, then the police could easily do it too. No doubt there are a few pay-offs for the authorities to turn a blind eye.

When we mine metals we take rock, crush it, apply chemicals and temperature to extract a couple of percent of material out of it. In e-waste we have X10/X20 higher concentration. Why can't we treat it as a minerals? Why we need to dismantle them at all? We are not dismantling mined rock. Just throw everything in shredder and then in some crucible or chemical reactor and extract gold, nickel, copper and all the stuff. Why aren't we doing it this way?

Show this to people hwo think smartphones are mose ewaste

How about the hardware and software included to prevent repair? Look at Apple.

in the nederlands you cat 4,45 for 1 kg of kopper

That looks like land grave.

No!!!! My soup!!!!

We need to purchase e-waste at attractive price like we do with automobiles.

Awesome and as always very inspiring film from DW, thank u folks! Triple Rs - R.EPAIR & R.EUSE & R.ECYCLE and repeat!🤘

@DWDocumentary

10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment!

@FlyingDwarfman

10 ай бұрын

I'm a teacher and advise a Content Creator Club led by students. For purposes of that club, I love to collect videos that fit various themes. DW content has a tendency to almost immediately go in my "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle an Beyond" playlist as examples for students of short-form documentaries (

Send it to Afghanistan or Africa for 15 years of remaining life. Much needed and less toxic

3:48 so after 10 years they discard the solar panels and it takes 2 years of use just to make up the electricity used in producing the panels. Those 10 years are a far cry from the 25 years estimated life time and when you add the carbon footprint and the waste you come to the conclusion that we are being lied to when it comes to solar

@beyondfossil

10 ай бұрын

That 2-yrs figure is highly variable. And it appears to be based on an old 2017 study from the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands which is based on even older solar panel tech from even earlier in the 2010 era. Even so, the study's given 2-yr figure was a "worst case" scenario. Panels back then were in the 17% efficiency but panels now are now pushing 23% efficiency. Moreover, most commercial solar farms now have 1-axis (tilt) sun tracking which increases energy capture some huge 10% to 20%. In a sunnier climate (not Netherlands or Germany), the energy payback may be in months or even quicker with sun tilt tracking during the summer. If the time frame is in months, then the time of year also plays a role as summer has much more solar energy than winter. Given the dire global carbon crisis and global energy transition, solar is one of those area of renewable tech receiving huge amounts of research investment now. For instance, the cost of solar has dropped a staggering 90% since 2010. Furthermore, utility-scale solar is the cheapest form of energy available now at some 3-cents per kWh (unsubsidized) and still falling. The world has never seen electrical energy this cheap. The sun's ludicrously cosmic huge abundant clean power is an easy choice for direct capture. That solar panel farm shown at 3:48 is not usual. Which is why it was highlighted in this new story. 10-years is far too short to be changing out all panels - something else is going on there as well. Consider that solar manufacturers have some 25 year warranty that their panel will not degrade beyond -0.45% capacity per year (linear). Solar panel PV manufacturers do not give warranties lightly and their terms are based on rigorous testing and statistical analysis. A bad warranty can directly impact their bottom line and bring down the company's finances and reputation. As they shown in the new story, those used solar farm panels can be donated or sold to less high demanding scenarios like residential or small commercial solar. Many urban locations have a local distributor who specializes in used panels. Used panels will be half or less the cost of a new panel and the old panel still retains some 80% to 90+% of their original power capacity. Other technologies coming up are non-silicon based Perovskite solar cells. Manufacturing Perovskite cells uses a fraction of the energy of traditional silicon based cells. The Perovskite material is literally "ink jet printed" onto a substrate with much less heating involved. Perovskites are tantalizing area of solar tech as it naturally provides higher efficiencies. Its in the 25% to 30% range because of their innate characteristics and the ease of building multi-layer cells that capture a wider bandwidth of the light spectrum. Normal silicon cells prefer lower-energy photons in the "redder" end of the spectrum while higher energy "bluer" photons will just reflect or cause heating.

@Samiby

10 ай бұрын

@@beyondfossil Interesting response. I was struggling with the maths in the documentary though. I can't get my head around that the narrator at the beginning of the documentary when the balcony buyer collects his panels that each recycled panel can produce 600w each, then when the panels are being removed from the mountainside, narrator says that these ones can only produce 235w (which to me, sounds more correct than 600w, so whether they're somehow mis selling to balcony buyers). Then the waste guy was saying that even if they've only lost 5% efficiency, they're still good enough for balcony buyers, which if they can get for 60 euros each is a steal but I doubt that price, but I still feel that the amount of money the company would need to invest to replace the panels to cover a 5% loss is too much (unless ofcourse the modern efficiency increases and if they install tilting panels really will reap rewards), but just sounded shady and probably a way for that company to somehow get granted government renewable money by saying they were installing more panels on spots that were already existing). I was surprised to hear that wasting panels was a thing, having them shredded, how has that ever been a practise in the past? Surely you could just a pile of panels at side of road with 'Free' sign on and save you having to transport to waste/recycle sites if they didn't sell them in the past. Anyhow, anyone know where I can get 60 quid panels in the UK?

This video is kinda misleading. How can recycling solar panels by reusing them can ever be sustainable if machine (at 16:50) for their testing costs several hundred thousand euros! (thats 200.000€ +) also that machine is using a lot of power is that power free, I would say its not. At 25:36 they are again using some specially made machines that use a lot of power to heat the panels and the next machine is even worse, its a proprietary machine. That's why people do not recycle, it's cheaper to just throw it away and companies always select cheaper option.

CIRCULAR economy should be the NEW thing now, all should be recycle, and NO need to mine NEW things,

Map of India is not map which is issued by india

Microsoft, Apple : NO

Data chips 😥

How too connect with Ecowork India. Plz share

He's a massive tool

Holy cow, India barely have any trees 😢

@deathmen7872

9 ай бұрын

Judging India by just few minute or videos ? Well done , but then should I assume you all eat cockroaches and earthworms by a few minute of clips ?

6:20 Hey, why are you guys depicting the wrong map of India?

Please show india correct map

i think on the future asia must be give a lot of trash to europe for recycling

Dear @DWdocumentary just correct the Indian map

but really you just cutting the very poorest from their only chance of earning anything..

I am sick of seeing so many solar panels. What on earth are we going to do with them when they are obsolete? They will be all waste!

Capitalism is a broken system.

Send to litter box of the orient: .....ISRAEL

18:39 what is going on down there ? even today in 2023 women are not treted equaly to men in dome parts of the world .

Is is me or the only suitable solution is that new stuff needs to be more expensive? That way recycling and reusing will become affordable and viable. Why not focus on paying the real price of new stuff instead of promoting recycling at very bad financial advantage

@honor9lite1337

10 ай бұрын

It's just you, you clearly don't understand free market and competition in business.

@philippemiller4740

10 ай бұрын

@@honor9lite1337 Free market like the gouvernment stepping in to save buisinesses from bankruptcy?

No such thing as a carbon neutral renewable. Maybe with few exceptions like hydropower. Imagine all the fossil fuels needed to mine, transport, process, build, etc, etc. Not to mention the fossil fuels needed to build the infrastructure to manufacture. Electric cars for example don't even cancel out all the fossil fuels used to make it. Not to mention environmental destruction done in mining rare earth minerals. But DW keeps misinforming on the subject.

The E(co)work setup looks good on paper but the gloves provided!!! OMG! No way you can do detailed work with those fat banana fingers on. That's a basic fail. Mechanics gloves would be fine.

Propaganda DW. Pushing green energy that clearly does not exist!!!!!

@justinyermaw2986

10 ай бұрын

@@ivar-the-terrible Read up dude. For the labour, materials recycled from each individual panel the recycling isn't economically viable. Why do you think the producers of the panels do not recycle those themselves??? The labour alone and amount you'd have to recycle to turn a decent profit simply is not there. Besides, green energy? Can you tell me the carbon footprint while mining and producing so called green energy? Tesla is a primes example, have you actually seen cobalt and lithium mines??

@gfys756

10 ай бұрын

​@@ivar-the-terrible"mUh sHiLl nPc!!!!!!! 😡😡😡" 😂🤦🏿‍♂️

This eco terorist will come up with solar panel as a solution, only to find out that it doesnt work, so they come up with another solution for solar panels only to find out that the second solution will not work in the rear future either so than they will proudly say WE HAVE ANOTHER SOLUTION, HOW TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM. This crazyness is never ending.

@DLCS-2

10 ай бұрын

You are assuming that with current technology. Probably engineers will come up with better materials

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Why dw videos dosent recomend to me. They dosent even come to my feed. Wtf!?

Great Documentary

@DWDocumentary

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and for the feedback!

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