Green Electronics 2013

The International CARE Electronics Office is pleased to announce the Green Electronics 2013 workshop on Resource Efficiency in the Electric and Electronics Industry. It will take place from November 4 - 6, 2013 in Budapest, Hungary.

In 2010 the European Commission has identified a list of 14 economically important raw materials which are subject to a higher risk of supply interruption.

There are a number of reasons for this heightened supply risk. One of them is the high concentration of the production of a raw material in a given non-EU country. Other reasons are the low political-economic stability of the main supplier(s), as well as the low substitutability and low recycling rates of the raw material itself.

The European Commission and several member states have monitored the issue of critical raw materials and set different priority actions. But how did industry leaders respond to this threat?

What are major sectors and players in the electric and electronic industry already doing to substitute and/or recover those critical materials? What are the trends in research and innovation? How can we collect more End-of-Life products?

Are these raw materials still critical? Or has there been a fundamental change that led to declining prices recently? Has the pressure on industry gone already? Will it come back? What will the future bring in this area?

These are some of the questions that will be discussed during the workshop!