Integrating environmental issues in it education in Tanzania
FIE'09 Proceedings of the 39th IEEE international conference on Frontiers in education conference
Mapping the landscape of sustainable HCI
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Inspiring the design of longer-lived electronics through an understanding of personal attachment
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
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Mobile phones are the most prevalent example of pervasive computing technologies in use today, with phone subscriptions reaching 3.3 billion in 2007. According to a 2005 estimate, consumers discard roughly 125 million mobile phones into landfills every year. Although devices continue to proliferate, viable options for ecologically responsible solutions remain elusive, inaccessible, or unknown to users. In this article, the authors examine people's practices with mobile phones, particularly those surrounding end-of-use. They focus on the differences and commonalities between practices in North America, Japan, and Germany, and the impact of varying local constraints on mobile phone sustainability. Building upon previous research examining sustainability and mobile phone ownership decisions, they explore the notion of situated sustainability by looking at how mobile phone sustainability is affected by local and community factors.