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Designing and examining e-waste recycling process: methodology and case studies

Journal

ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 38, Issue 6, Pages 652-660

Publisher

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2016.1207711

Keywords

e-Waste; recycling; methodology; process selection; evaluation

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [71373141]
  2. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2015M571056, 2016T90104]
  3. National Key Technology RD Program [2014BAC03B04]

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Increasing concerns on resource depletion and environmental pollution have largely obliged electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) should be tackled in an environmentally sound manner. Recycling process development is regarded as the most effective and fundamental to solve the e-waste problem. Based on global achievements related to e-waste recycling in the past 15 years, we first propose a theory to design an e-waste recycling process, including measuring e-waste recyclability and selection of recycling process. And we summarize the indicators and tools in terms of resource dimension, environmental dimension, and economic dimension, to examine the e-waste recycling process. Using the sophisticated experience and adequate information of e-waste management, spent lithium-ion batteries and waste printed circuit boards are chosen as case studies to implement and verify the proposed method. All the potential theory and obtained results in this work can contribute to future e-waste management toward best available techniques and best environmental practices.

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