Journal
SUSTAINABILITY
Volume 14, Issue 16, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/su141610371
Keywords
electronic waste (e-waste); waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE); sustainability management; multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM); fuzzy MCDM
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This paper introduces a new methodology for evaluating sustainable e-waste management scenarios. The proposed method integrates subjective and objective data, opinions of multiple experts, and uncertainty of information. Through an extended fuzzy SECA integrated with SMART, the evaluation process is efficiently carried out and delivers reliable results.
The process of production, consumption, and final disposal of electrical and electronic equipment usually leads to harmful waste to the environment called e-waste. Eliminating and decreasing this type of waste could be considered as an essential goal for many enterprises working toward sustainable management systems. In this paper, we aim at introducing a new methodology for evaluation of sustainable e-waste management scenarios. The evaluation is defined as an MCDM (Multi-Criteria Decision-Making) problem, and the scenarios are the alternatives of the problem that need to be evaluated with respect to several sustainability criteria. An extended fuzzy SECA (Simultaneous Evaluation of Criteria and Alternatives) integrated with SMART (Simple Multi-Attribute Rating Technique), named F-SECA, is proposed to deal with the evaluation process. The alpha-cut approach is used to consider different levels of uncertainty and obtain interval values for assessment of criteria and alternatives. The proposed methodology helps us to make the evaluation with incorporation of subjective and objective data, opinions of multiple experts and uncertainty of information. We applied the methodology to evaluate sustainable e-waste management scenarios in a case. Through comparative and sensitivity analyses, the paper shows that the proposed methodology is efficient and gives reliable results.
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