Sustainability champion Emma Armstrong to speak at Innovation Zero

Sustainability champion Emma Armstrong to speak at Innovation Zero

Green electronics pioneer Emma Armstrong will talk about how the culture of electronics must change with a presentation at Innovation Zero, the UK's largest sustainability conference, taking place at London Olympia. 

Emma, who is In2tec's Sustainable Electronics Ambassador will be presenting at the Innovation Showcase – Industry Forum at 12.40 on the 30^th April.

In her presentation Emma will share insights into how the existing culture of disposability and material waste that helps drive the climate crisis can evolve into a reuse and recycling circular system – increasing profits for the supply chain whilst cutting costs for the consumer.

In2tec is on a mission to reduce the world’s growing ewaste mountain and conserve precious and dwindling resources such as gold, silver, copper, platinum, aluminium, and cobalt through pioneering sustainable electronics.

“The environmental impact of ‘bury or burn it’ in electronics can seem overwhelming so it’s hard to envisage change, especially considering the challenges presented by traditional materials and process that prevent genuine recycling opportunities,” Emma said.

“However, there are reasons for hope. Modular electronics and leading-edge recycling processes present an opportunity to reuse precious materials without the financial and environmental cost of processes like de-soldering and shredding.

“My presentation featuring case studies will certainly be of interest to any OEM with an eye on looming legislative changes concerning ewaste and emissions.”

Emma will also outline the company’s signature robotics-led ReUSE® and ReCYCLE™ technologies, which are comprised of closed-loop processes that allow manufacturers to remove components from existing electronics at the end of their useful life and reuse them.

ReUSE® is a suite of patented inks, adhesives, materials, and processes and utilises proprietary design techniques to manufacture PCBA, while ReCYCLE™ is the ultra-low energy process for unzipping PCBAs to the original bill of materials (BoM).