Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 13, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su13073684
Keywords
RFID technology; RFID tag; environmental burden; e-waste; metal
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The paper focuses on the environmental burden of RFID tags in the Slovak Republic and globally, presenting legislative regulations and research findings to address the issue.
The paper focuses on the environmental burden created by Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in the Slovak Republic (SR). In order to determine the burden there, a model example was created to calculate electronic waste produced by households in the SR by placing RFID tags into municipal waste. The paper presents a legislative regulatory approach towards the environmental impacts from using RFID tags in the SR, as well as an analysis of the environmental burden of using RFID tags throughout the world. The core of the paper is focused on the research conducted in order to calculate the environmental burden of a model household in the SR, where the number of used RFID tags per year was observed; then, the volume of e-waste produced by households of the Slovak Republic per year was determined. In the conclusion, we provide the results of the research presented and discuss including our own proposal for solving the problems connected with the environmental burden of RFID technology.
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