Whats a smartphone made of? - Kim Preshoff
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Date: 2020-08-22
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baitcat
This video isn't correct. As a mechanical engineer of 20 years I can say that all metals are recycled NOT thrown in the bin and more mined. Even from a corperate point of view this makes no economical sense. Why spend hundred of thousands on mining equipment, paying the workers and getting mining permission, when older models that are discarded already contain the metals needed for the new models? We have been recycling metals since 1776!
In regards to shipping old phones abroard for cheap labour why not explain the pros and cons as I was taught in university whilest studying a degree in mechanical engineering. Labour is the highest cost within the engineering lifecycle and out sourcing the labour reduces the end cost to the user and makes the comapny more compedative.
Example: 2 phones with exactly the same spec. One is manufactured in china where the minimum wage is 2. 40/h the other is manufactured in the UK where the minimum wage is 10. 63/h. that's nearly 4. 5X the cost. So one phone has a cost price of 500 and the other has a cost price of 2500 and they are identical. Now add the profit margin of around 50% (kind of standard for phone manufactures. China manufactured phone sales price = 1000 and UK manufactured phone sales price = 5000. and don't forget they are identical. Which one would you buy?
Outsourcing to low income countries also provides jobs and income to the most desperate. Stopping this would cut off the only if not meager income they have to feed their families. Their situation is not the fault of the corperations that provide the jobs to them but of their own governments that dco not put the well being of their people first.
Why not make a decent video explaing the life cycle of a product, the materials sourced and the labour process, highlighting how far we have come and then look at the areas of which we can still improve. oh yeah, that's why because that kind of video would't get as many views and cause as much outrage because it would be too truthful.
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This video isn't correct. As a mechanical engineer of 20 years I can say that all metals are recycled NOT thrown in the bin and more mined. Even from a corperate point of view this makes no economical sense. Why spend hundred of thousands on mining equipment, paying the workers and getting mining permission, when older models that are discarded already contain the metals needed for the new models? We have been recycling metals since 1776!
In regards to shipping old phones abroard for cheap labour why not explain the pros and cons as I was taught in university whilest studying a degree in mechanical engineering. Labour is the highest cost within the engineering lifecycle and out sourcing the labour reduces the end cost to the user and makes the comapny more compedative.
Example: 2 phones with exactly the same spec. One is manufactured in china where the minimum wage is 2. 40/h the other is manufactured in the UK where the minimum wage is 10. 63/h. that's nearly 4. 5X the cost. So one phone has a cost price of 500 and the other has a cost price of 2500 and they are identical. Now add the profit margin of around 50% (kind of standard for phone manufactures. China manufactured phone sales price = 1000 and UK manufactured phone sales price = 5000. and don't forget they are identical. Which one would you buy?
Outsourcing to low income countries also provides jobs and income to the most desperate. Stopping this would cut off the only if not meager income they have to feed their families. Their situation is not the fault of the corperations that provide the jobs to them but of their own governments that dco not put the well being of their people first.
Why not make a decent video explaing the life cycle of a product, the materials sourced and the labour process, highlighting how far we have come and then look at the areas of which we can still improve. oh yeah, that's why because that kind of video would't get as many views and cause as much outrage because it would be too truthful.
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_Paws_
In the story and the future I envisioned; humans and their many businesses will eventually take a hold of the resources throughout the universe. These companies will dedicate each planet, moon, or other form of celestial body into a natural resource to be harvested. Whether those planets or moons have life or not, those celestial bodies will be mined and extracted for whatever product man desires to it sell off as.
Each planet will be marked with huge logos of the brand or company, like a celestial warehouse on each far of corner in the universe. Galaxies of materials will be owned by one or many corporations. Trillions of materials gathered by man's inexhaustible need of consumption.
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In the story and the future I envisioned; humans and their many businesses will eventually take a hold of the resources throughout the universe. These companies will dedicate each planet, moon, or other form of celestial body into a natural resource to be harvested. Whether those planets or moons have life or not, those celestial bodies will be mined and extracted for whatever product man desires to it sell off as.
Each planet will be marked with huge logos of the brand or company, like a celestial warehouse on each far of corner in the universe. Galaxies of materials will be owned by one or many corporations. Trillions of materials gathered by man's inexhaustible need of consumption.
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Mackenzie
Owning phones isnt bad, its something pretty much all of us need in this society weve built. However, its the terrible need some people have for always buying the newest and coolest phone in the market every time something comes out.
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Owning phones isnt bad, its something pretty much all of us need in this society weve built. However, its the terrible need some people have for always buying the newest and coolest phone in the market every time something comes out.
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Baraa
I have an easy solution, keep all your old phones in your shoe boxes so you don't hurt the earth, you won't buy more than 26 phones throughout your lifetime on this earth. they can all fit in 2 shoes boxes.
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I have an easy solution, keep all your old phones in your shoe boxes so you don't hurt the earth, you won't buy more than 26 phones throughout your lifetime on this earth. they can all fit in 2 shoes boxes.
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Sorin
Why do people buy new phones If they have a good one ok a new one because You can not download a app so You get a iPhone or is work bad or is incompatibile whit more and more apps but just is old is not ok
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Why do people buy new phones If they have a good one ok a new one because You can not download a app so You get a iPhone or is work bad or is incompatibile whit more and more apps but just is old is not ok
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education
A average smartphone are made up of 63 different types of metals. Scandium and Yttrium are included in the earth metals because their chemical properties are similar to those of lanthanides.
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A average smartphone are made up of 63 different types of metals. Scandium and Yttrium are included in the earth metals because their chemical properties are similar to those of lanthanides.
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Emma
I have the money to get a new phone every few years but I'm sticking with the one I'm typing this comment out on for as long as I possibly can and I encourage everyone else to do the same
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I have the money to get a new phone every few years but I'm sticking with the one I'm typing this comment out on for as long as I possibly can and I encourage everyone else to do the same
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Bibas
This video was interesting because i didnt even know there was such thing as rare earth metal. I would change the use of earth metals because it hurts environment and destroy habitat
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This video was interesting because i didnt even know there was such thing as rare earth metal. I would change the use of earth metals because it hurts environment and destroy habitat
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Overwatch
Here's how phone companies work, 1 minute they have a new phone the next there 10 billion types of new phone models that 1, aren't as good or 2 WAAY overpriced.
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Here's how phone companies work, 1 minute they have a new phone the next there 10 billion types of new phone models that 1, aren't as good or 2 WAAY overpriced.
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