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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"WEEE"”.
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An investigation of the implications and effectiveness of producer responsibility for the disposal of WEEE
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Advancing the Frontier of Extended Producer Responsibility: The management of waste electrical and electronic equipment in non-OECD countries
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has become a salient issue in non-OECD countries. With a growing awareness about serious damages to the environment and human health from a lack of safe treatment and recycling of WEEE, there has been a search for policy responses in several of these …
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Investigating ferric ion production and consumption trends in a simulated e-waste bioleaching environment for maximum metal dissolution efficiency
… Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) and is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world. Disposing the WEEE has associated risks as they contain a high amount of toxic metals (e.g. lead) which can leach into the soil, they place a high load on the land and they contain …
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Four Year Old Kindergarten Should Not Be Optional, But A Necessary Program For Low Performing School Districts
<p>The Wisconsin Engaging Early Education (WEEE) Policy outlines a school readiness funding intitative that can help to close the achievement gap in underperforming school districts. Research has shown that students from lower social economic status do not have the same access to high quality early …
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Organizing e-waste
… Waste of Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE) Directive, introduced into the UK in 2006. WEEE aims to control electrical and electronic waste through the promotion of reducing, reuse, recycling and recovery. The intention is to improve the environmental profile of those operating within …
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Minimising Impact: How legislation and sustainable design can reduce the environmental cost of a mobile phone
… the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive, the various options available at End of Life for handsets (i.e. recycling, refurbishment for resale and disposal to landfill) and the effects of various sustainable design modifications on the overall environmental cost of the …
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Untersuchungen zur Sortierung dunkler thermoplastischer Kunststoffe mittels Neuentwicklungen in der Sortiertechnik
… praxisnahe Untersuchungen mit Kunststoffen aus WEEE durchgeführt. Mit dem Praxismaterial wurden teilweise deutlich niedrigere Sortierkennwerte als mit dem künstlichen Materialgemisch erreicht, weshalb die angewendete Verfahrensschaltung nicht ausreichte, um einsatzfähige Regranulate herzustellen.
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Investigation of a hydrometallurgical process route to recover metals from waste printed circuit boards
… increase in waste electronic and electric waste (WEEE). Most of these metals in WEEE are on the printed circuit boards (PCBs). This study aims to compare different pre-treatment methods to recycle copper from PCBs using a hydrometallurgical process. In order to obtain a uniform/consistent sample …
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Making Sense of Extended Producer Responsibility: Towards a framework for policy transfer
… and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the developed world with the analysis of the contexts in developing countries. The political areas include the United Kingdom, Sweden, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, India, Argentina, and Thailand. The evaluation research applied …
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Economic and environmental opportunities in electronics industry
… to waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are economic loss and environmental externalities. Incomplete recovery of materials in waste mobile phones results in a great amount of economic loss. Many studies aim to improve the situation by characterizing metals within printed circuit …
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Economics of end-of-life materials recover : a study of small appliances and computer devices in Portugal
… economic value identified in the Portuguese WEEE recycling system.
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Fashionable addiction : the impact of digital identity through the cult of the body (an African perspective, with particular reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo)
… Waste for Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) legislation showed that thirty percent of the allegedly second-hand products imported to Ghana were useless (African WEEE Report by the UN Environment Programme [AWRUNEP], 2012). Pieter Hugo's photographs in the book Permanent Error (2011) …
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Making Sense of Environmental Governance: A Study of E-waste in Malaysia
… legislation such as the Basel Convention, WEEE directive and RoHS directive. This has direct implication on Malaysia as she is a party to Basel Convention, and produces electrical and electronic equipment for global market.
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Investigating Early-Stage Process Flow and Reactor Sequencing to Maximise Gold Extraction ln the Thiosulphate Leaching of Waste Printed Circuit Boards
… of waste electronic and electrical equipment (WEEE) present a rising environmental challenge while offering opportunities for creating a circular economy. Once dismantled and sorted, waste printed circuit boards (PCBs) are one of the value-bearing fractions of WEEE. Waste PCBs contain valuable …
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Controlling dark fermentation of agro-industrial waste for valued organic acids production
… waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) through leaching process. Electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) is increasingly part of our life and contributes to improving the quality of life by providing benefits and opportunities in various sectors. At the same time, EEE production …
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MODULARIZATION, INNOVATION AND COMPLIANCE
… in electrical and electronic equipment), WEEE and CE Making have been completed. Other HSE (health, safety and environment) awareness session has been gone though.
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Revenue management for multiple product recovery options : a triangulation approach
… on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the European Union. These returns incur acquisition costs and take-back operation costs regarded as a sunk cost by many industries. Thus, returned/recovered product valuation and marketing issues become crucial factors for survival and …
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Characterisation of lead-free solder pastes and their correlation with the stencil printing process performance
… Substances – enacted by UK regulations) and WEEE (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment) has led to the use of lead-free soldering in the SMA (surface mount assembly) process, and an urgent need for better understanding of the characteristics and printing performance of new solder …
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Exploring the potential for local end-processing of e-waste in South Africa
E-waste is one of the fastest-growing waste streams in the world, and South Africa (SA) is no exception. This is driven by increased consumer demand and access to electrical and electronic equipment, in addition to perceived equipment obsolescence, and rapid advancements in technology. E-waste …
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