0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R2,500 - R5,000 (1)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 1 of 1 matches in All Departments

E-Waste Management - From Waste to Resource (Hardcover): Klaus Hieronymi, Ramzy Kahhat, Eric Williams E-Waste Management - From Waste to Resource (Hardcover)
Klaus Hieronymi, Ramzy Kahhat, Eric Williams
R4,959 Discovery Miles 49 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Kirstenbosch - A Visitor's Guide
Colin Paterson-Jones, John Winter Paperback R160 R143 Discovery Miles 1 430
Battles and Leaders of the Civil War…
Robert Underwood Johnson Paperback R556 Discovery Miles 5 560
Operation Biting - The 1942 Parachute…
Max Hastings Paperback R480 R428 Discovery Miles 4 280
Super Cute Duct Tape
J Maleri Paperback R282 R227 Discovery Miles 2 270
Chronological History of the West Indies
Thomas Southey Paperback R788 Discovery Miles 7 880
50 Tydlose Breipatrone - Alles Van…
Christa Swanepoel Paperback R260 R244 Discovery Miles 2 440
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa - An Armory…
Dinesh Sriramulu Hardcover R3,311 Discovery Miles 33 110
People's History of Glasgow - an…
John K M'Dowall Hardcover R824 Discovery Miles 8 240
Salmonella - A Re-emerging Pathogen
Maria Teresa Mascellino Hardcover R3,315 Discovery Miles 33 150
Stick Control - For the Snare Drummer
George Lawrence Stone Hardcover R474 Discovery Miles 4 740

 

Partners