Our publications are academic papers, projects, case studies, guides , surveys …
Academic Papers
2024
📄 Roura, M., Navarro, L., Meseguer, R., & Franquesa, D. (2024). Origin, destination, and computational power analysis of reused/recycled ICT devices in the Pangea eReuse Circuit [Data set]. CORA. Repositori de Dades de Recerca.
2023
📄 Roura, M., Navarro, L. & Meseguer, R. (2023). Property Rights in Servitisation: A Practical Assessment with Reused Computers. In: Wohlgemuth, V., Naumann, S., Behrens, G., Arndt, HK., Höb, M. (eds) Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics. ENVIROINFO 2022. Progress in IS (pp. 17-35). Springer, Cham.
📄 Roura, M., Vilchez, P., Navarro, L., Meseguer, R., & Bao, A. (2023). Un abordaje comunitario, descentralizado y sostenible de la lucha contra la desigualdad digital desde el aprendizaje-servicio. XI Congreso Nacional e Internacional de Aprendizaje-Servicio Universitario (ApSU11), Barcelona, 25–27 de enero de 2023. Video
2021
📄 Paper L. Navarro, Roura, M., Franquesa, D., and Meseguer, R., “eReuse poster: the circular economy of digital devices”, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, New York, NY, USA, 2021.
📄 Paper M. Roura, Franquesa, D., Navarro, L., and Meseguer, R., “Circular digital devices: lessons about the social and planetary boundaries”, in Workshop on Computing within Limits, New York, 2021.
2020
📄 Dataset: Devices until june 2019. A public dataset about reuse life-cycle data of devices. Under the eReuse device data commons license (CC BY). July 2020. (webpage).
2019
📄 Paper “Circular consumption and production of electronic devices: an approach to measuring, durability, upgradeability, reusability, obsolescence and premature recycling” , In Proceedings of 19th European Roundtable for Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP 2019). October 2019. ( Conference | paper).
2018
📄 Paper “Devices as a Commons: limits to premature recycling”, In Proceedings of Fourth Workshop on Computing within Limits (Limits’18). June 2018, ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 4, 10 pages. ( Conference | paper).
2017
📄 Paper “Sustainability and participation in the digital commons”. Interactions, Volume 24 Issue 3, June 2017, Pages 66-69. https://doi.org/10.1145/3058139. (paper).
2016
📄 Paper “A Circular Commons for Digital Devices”, Second Workshop on Computing within Limits, June 9-10, 2016, Irvine, CA, USA. (Conference | paper|video).
📄 Bachelor’s Final Project “The Architecture of eReuse.org and the Development of DeviceHub, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, May 2016. (PDF)
📄 Paper publication (March 2016). Publication at newsletter, “Informatil Für Umweltschutz, Nachaltige Ebtwicklung und risikomanagement”, Fachausschuss UmweltInformatik, March 2016, 1000 reads ( pdf)
2015
📄 Paper “Breaking Barriers on Reuse of Digital Devices Ensuring Final Recycling”. EnviroInfo Conference 2015. Copenhagen, September 9-11 2015. This work received the “Best Paper Award”. (PDF).
📄 Poster “eReuse.org: an ecosystem for traceable reuse of digital devices in a circular economy”. ICT4D & EnviroInfo Conference 2015. Copenhagen, September 9-11 2015. (JPG).
Projects
📄 Impacts of IT Equipment Reuse in Reducing the Digital Divide: The Experience of Four Centers in La Plata and Rosario (Argentina) and Montevideo (Uruguay). Cooperation for Development Centre grants from UPC.
📄 NGI Policy-in-Practice (Pangea.org) and some details in a blog post (10/2020-6/2021).
📄 Improvement of Reuse and Recycling Processes in NodoTau Processing Plant (Argentina), Narrative Report (APC EnvSus Grants Support).
📄 NGI Trublo (UPC): Distributed trust and reputation in the circular economy. (7/2021-3/2022)
📄 NGI Atlantic blockchain testbed (UPC): Decentralized data ecosystem for the Open Blockchain for Asset Disposition Alliance. (2-8/2021)
📄 DLT4EU (6/2020-1/2021), an interview of the Sant Boi case, final summary report. Awards: top 3 solutions, Circular Cities award of the Hans Sauer Foundation.
📄 Ledger (joint UPC, Pangea.org, Usody.com) (2019)
📄 APC member grant about municipal computer reuse (2018)
📄 Abacus (2018)
📄 TagItSmart, our deliverables and our final report as a summary. (2017)
📄 Chest. (2014-15)
📄 Final report deliverable. Ereuse.org – Circular economy for electronics reuse, EU Project tagitsmart.eu – Smart Tags driven service platform for enabling ecosystems of connected objects, January 2019.
Case Studies
2023
📄 Diagnosis of reuse in public procurement in Catalonia.
2021
📄 Ecosystem case study, Interreg: Socially minded platform for the reuse and recycling of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE).
📄 Roura, M., Flores, J., Franquesa, D., & Navarro. (2021). Reusing computer devices: The social impact and reduced environmental impact of a circular approach. In Global Information Society Watch 2020: Technology, the environment and a sustainable world: Responses from the global South (pp. 223–227). Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones (APC).
📄 Analysis of reuse business models (Subtract project).
2019
📄 “Las buenas prácticas del mes EREUSE. BARCELONA”, Buenas prácticas de economía social, economia circular en red, Oficina de economia social, marzo 2019, madrid.es (PDF).
📄 “How to extend the electronic devices lifespan and reduce E waste at the city level learning from the Barcelona experience”, Zero Waste Europe, 5 February (Webinar web, Case study , Ereuse slides, City Council Slides, Donalo.org Slides)
Guides
2021
📄 “A guide to the circular economy of digital devices”
“Una guía sobre la economía circular de los dispositivos digitales”, “Guide de l’économie circulaire de nos appareils numériques”, ereuse.org, October, 2021.
2019
📄 “Introducció a les plataformes de reutilització i traçabilitat de l’electrònica”, ereuse.org, October, 2019. (pdf).
Surveys
2019
📄 “Barriers to reuse electronics coming from the public sector”, ereuse.org, February, 2019. (pdf).