Have you ever thought about what happens to your phone or your car when you dispose of it? Currently, designers, engineers, and recyclers don’t work together to create a product. But what if they did? Pooja discusses how companies need to understand the toll proper disposal of a complex product has on the recycling industry and design their products with the intent to recycle. Pooja Trivedi is a UT Austin Biomedical Engineering Graduate. On campus, Pooja has been involved with Projects with Underserved Communities, water conservation research through the President's Award for Global Learning, Student Engineering Council, and Texas Orange Jackets. These experiences have led her to appreciate the social and environmental impact engineering can have.

Additionally, this past summer, Pooja worked at Apple as an R&D Recycling Innovation Engineer, tasked with tackling the company's electronic waste problems. Pooja is very excited to be discussing with the community what it was that she learned from these experiences and how the community can change the face of product design to become more environmentally friendly. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx