Repurposing end of life notebook computers from consumer WEEE as thin client computers - A hybrid end of life strategy for the Circular Economy in electronics

A streamlined lifecycle analysis based on Cumulative Energy Demand (CED) was undertaken to compare the impact of repurposed notebook computers with new thin client computers. The results indicated that there are significant potential savings to be made by extending lifetimes and offsetting the production of new thin client computers under a range of assumptions.