Conférence – The Wild West of Distributed Recycling

Joshua Pearce de la MichiganTech University

Professeur invité à l’UL- ERPI dans le cadre du programme Professor@Lorraine

Donnera une conférence exceptionnelle intitulée :

“The Wild West of Distributed Recycling”

Only about 9% of plastic waste generated in the U.S. is recycled; and that was before China stopped accepting mixed plastic waste, so in the short term even less plastic will be recycled. The economics of plastic recycling historically have been challenging and there has been little financial incentive to encourage consumers to recycle their plastic waste. Today, however, new open source technologies enable consumers to become prosumers who can convert plastic waste into high value products. What does waste management look like when prosumers recycle their own waste in their own homes? This presentation will discuss this potential in the fully distributed context based on technical research at Michigan Tech and compare it to semi-distributed recycling in the fab lab context being pioneered at the University of Lorraine.

Le mercredi 15 mai, à 17h30 dans les locaux du LF2L http://www.lf2l.fr, 49 Bd d’Austrasie à Nancy

Prof. Joshua Pearce

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering-

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Faculty Advisor, Open Source Hardware Enterprise

Joshua Pearce a travaillé sur les aspects environnementaux, éthiques, culturels et politiques du progrès technologique d’un point de vue interdisciplinaire.

Il a écrit plus de 200 articles scientifiques : https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=QZ8lPxwAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdat