Cellphone Dissection

For this assignment, I dissected a Nokia flip phone.

How It's Made Video: A Nokia Cellphone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwoGxrLZlAk

Nokia flip phone chassis made primarily of polyethylene plastic.

The flip phone contains a small LCD screen as well as key pad made of silicone rubber.

The cellphone's battery is a lithium ion battery.

The circuit board is made of primarily the same material that the cellphone body is made of which is polyethylene. There are also trace amounts of copper as well as lead for soldering.

Here is the phone taken apart as much as possible without being completely destroyed. This phone was very simple, and as a result, was made of relatively simple and cheap materials.

Three Sustainable Statagies:
1. Phone could be made so that it is easily disassembled and reassembled. Parts should be interchangeable with newer parts from the same company.
2. Parts should be made of recyclable materials.
3. Make the phone in such a way that requires fewer parts which will help the recycling process become faster and more efficient.