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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE)"”.
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Making Sense of Extended Producer Responsibility: Towards a framework for policy transfer
… falls into the trap of uninformed, incomplete, and/or inappropriate transfer because the interventions are insufficiently identified with some of their perceived core components. This is no exception in the interspatial learning about extended producer responsibility (EPR) programmes. This …
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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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Economic and environmental opportunities in electronics industry
Due to industrial development and technological innovation, many problems arise from the increasing number of electronics devices that need to be managed at end of life. The two main market failures related to waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are economic loss and environmental …
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Investigating ferric ion production and consumption trends in a simulated e-waste bioleaching environment for maximum metal dissolution efficiency
Electrical and electronic equipment has become an integral part of life in the modern world. When disposed of, it is termed 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 …
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Minimising Impact: How legislation and sustainable design can reduce the environmental cost of a mobile phone
… in the environmental cost of a mobile phone handset. It initially looks at the development of mobile handsets and the trends in weight, energy consumption, use life and mobile ownership. The environmental impacts of these trends are discussed, as is the issue of refurbishing mobile handsets …
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Revenue management for multiple product recovery options : a triangulation approach
… legislations, particularly the directive 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 …