Bloom Laptop Designed For Easy Disassembly

Zothecula writes "It's a given that we will one day be discarding our present laptop computers. It's also a given that e-waste is currently a huge problem, that looks like it's only going to get worse. While most of the materials in a laptop can be recycled, all of those pieces of glass, metal, plastic and circuitry are stuck together pretty tight, and require a lot of time and effort to separate. What is needed are laptops that are designed to be taken apart, for easy recycling – that's why a group of graduate students from Stanford University made one."

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A given?

[jamesl]

It's also a given that e-waste is currently a huge problem
Your authority for this statement?
... pieces of glass ...
Recycling glass (especially the small amount in an LCD) is a fool's errand. The volume of LCD glass "filling landfills" is vanishingly small and the main resource used in manufacture is energy (heat) used to melt the glass during production. The energy required to use recycled glass is almost the same as used in new manufacture.