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E-Waste Management - From Waste to Resource (Hardcover)
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E-Waste Management - From Waste to Resource (Hardcover)
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The landscape of electronic waste, e-waste, management is changing
dramatically. Besides a rapidly increasing world population,
globalization is driving the demand for products, resulting in
rising prices for many materials. Absolute scarcity looms for some
special resources such as indium. Used electronic products and
recyclable materials are increasingly crisscrossing the globe. This
is creating both - opportunities and challenges for e-waste
management. This focuses on the current and future trends,
technologies and regulations for reusable and recyclable e-waste
worldwide. It compares international e-waste management
perspectives and regulations under a view that includes the
environmental, social and economic aspects of the different linked
systems. It overviews the current macro-economic trends from
material demand to international policy to waste scavenging,
examines particular materials and product streams in detail and
explores the future for e-waste and its' management considering
technology progress, improving end-of-lifecycle designs, policy and
sustainability perspectives. To achieve this, the volume has been
divided in twelve chapters that cover three major themes: holistic
view of the global e-waste situation current reserve supply chain
and management of used electronics, including flows, solutions,
policies and regulations future perspectives and solutions for a
sustainable e-waste management. The emphasis of the book is mainly
on the dramatic change of the entire e-waste sector from the
cheapest way of getting rid of e-waste in an environmental sound
way to how e-waste can help to reduce excavation of new substances
and lead to a sustainable economy. It is an ideal resource for
policy-makers, waste managers and researchers involved in the
design and implementation of e-waste.
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