[LINK] World University Rankings, 2011 (E-Waste)

[Marghanita da Cruz]

stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
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> And also surprizingly for me .. 
> 
> * World's top 25 universities for chemical engineering .. 
> 
> "Australia demonstrated its strength in chemical engineering with five 
> universities in the top 50 worldwide, a tally bettered only by the US. 
> 
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Chemical engineering is important in mining
(eg extracting gold from "poor grade tailings")
as well as refining oil, aluminium & steel.

This kind of base should also position Australia well to
turn E-waste into electronic scrap to enable reuse of
materials - if we could sort out (sorry about the pun)
the separation.

Collection and "the reverse supply chain", rather
than processing of e-scrap, seems to be the  obstacle to
converting E-Waste.
<http://ramin.com.au/itgovernance/green-ICT-e-waste.shtml>

Marghanita
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