| Title |
Recycling Challenges for Electronic Consumer Products to E-Waste: A Developing Countries' Perspective |
| ID_Doc |
29244 |
| Authors |
Guarnieri, P; Silva, LCE; Xavier, LH; Chaves, GLD |
| Title |
Recycling Challenges for Electronic Consumer Products to E-Waste: A Developing Countries' Perspective |
| Year |
2020 |
| Published |
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| DOI |
10.1007/978-3-030-14184-4_5 |
| Abstract |
Recycling and sustainable development issues are increasing in importance around the world. This aspect is more prominent in developing countries, in which there are many informal recycling activities and few environmental legislations regulating waste management. This chapter discusses the recycling challenges regarding the adoption of e-waste reverse logistics under the perspective of developing countries. For this purpose, we gathered information from papers published in international databases and reports such as the United Nations Environment Programme and Global e-waste Monitor, thus identifying data available to American countries (Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Mexico), South Africa and Asian countries (China, India, Russia, Indonesia, Turkey, Pakistan, South Korea, Thailand and Singapore). As key findings we can point out the categorization of the barriers into financial/economics, environmental, market related, legal, policy related, management, knowledge related and technical and technological related. As main contributions of this chapter, we can highlight (i) the compilation of information related to recycling challenges of e-waste in developing countries, and (ii) the identification of some solutions and actions to overcome these barriers is also performed, which can be useful for practitioners and researchers in this field. |
| Author Keywords |
Circular economy; Developing countries; E-waste; Electronic residues; Reconditioning; Recycling challenges; Reverse logistics; Residues revalorization; Urban mining; Waste management |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Book Citation Index – Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH); Book Citation Index – Science (BKCI-S) |
| EID |
WOS:000487755400006 |
| WoS Category |
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology; Engineering, Environmental; Environmental Sciences; Environmental Studies |
| Research Area |
Science & Technology - Other Topics; Engineering; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
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