A Blockchain-Based Deposit System to Reduce WEE
Sebastian Lawrenz, Vera Stein, Lukas Jacobs, Andreas Rausch · 2020
Nowadays, electronics/electrical appliances are becoming less and less appreciated. Due to ever shorter innovation cycles, especially in the field of consumer electronics, more and more electrical waste is being produced. Motivated by this fact we decided to face this challenge in a course called programming project course. There we introduced the problem and further the blockchain technology. The task was to design a blockchain-based solution to reduce Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment (WEE) and so to improve sustainability. The final idea here was to establish a deposit system for WEE. In this paper, we present the programming project from the development process of the first ideas to the completion of the running prototype and discuss the results.