2024-03-20 04:16:00
the essentials Third-year students from Louis-Pasteur College mobilized for Digital Cleanup Day.
This collective action, which takes place in France and other countries, consists of cleaning our data and offering a second life to our digital equipment to reduce their environmental impact.
It is through ESVT courses that the teacher, Hélène Casaux, raised her students’ awareness of the issue of the extraction of raw materials for the manufacture of electronic objects which use an enormous amount of energy and natural resources as well as to the need to repair or recycle our old devices. “The students led a real awareness campaign among their classmates by explaining to them that the data on their old devices would be cleaned securely and that functional devices would find a second life via Emmaüs Connect,” she explains.
Ensuring that personal data is completely erased is important for teens. “It’s difficult to encourage some people to bring back their old devices, because they have an almost sentimental relationship with their smartphone and others experience it like the loss of a pet.” adds young Soléa alongside her comrades.
But don’t worry, the eco-organization Ecologic is a non-profit company invested by the State with a public utility mission consisting of managing the end of life of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). To do this, it is responsible for collecting, decontaminating and recovering WEEE throughout France, ensuring that each step is carried out in full compliance.
Hence the students’ initiative to organize a collection by dropping off boxes with merchants and to offer within the establishment an exchange of cake for an item brought back. And it worked, like Althéa who brought back three phones and a PC, Jade fifteen smartphone screens and Solal bluetooth keys as well as headphones. “For me, this is the best way to deal with the recycling chapter,” concludes Hélène Casaux. “Teaching good practices through lessons and through concrete applications motivates the students and this is the third year that we have carried out the operation: Let’s give a second life to our digital equipment.”
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