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e-waste management : from waste to resource / edited by Klaus Hieronymi, Ramzy Kahhat and Eric Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Electronic waste--Management.
- Electronic waste.
- Electronic apparatus and appliances--Environmental aspects.
- Electronic apparatus and appliances.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Electronic Waste: Environment and Society; 2 Current and New Electronic Waste Recycling Technologies; 3 Recycling of Technology Metals: A Holistic System Approach; 4 A Tale of Three Metals; 5 Closing the Plastic Loop: Turning the Supply Chain into a Supply Cycle by Mining Plastics from End-of-Life Electronics and other Durable Goods; 6 Evaluating the Performance of Recycling Systems: Examples from North American and European Electronics Recycling Systems
- 7 Current International Flows of Electronic Waste, Future Tasks, and Possible Solutions8 Controlling Trade in Electronic Waste: An Analysis of International Agreements and National Trade Policies in Asia; 9 Future Development of Product Streams and the Necessary Adaptation of Waste Management and the Legislation Ruling it; 10 Reuse: A Bridge from Unsustainable E-Waste to Sustainable E-Resources; 11 Electronics Industry Competes for Raw Materials: Will the Scarcity of Natural Resources Become a Showstopper for the Information and Communications Industry?
- 12 Future Perspectives on Electronic ScrapIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-29911-4
- 1-280-77630-7
- 9786613686695
- 1-136-29912-2
- 0-203-11645-3
- 9780203116456
- OCLC:
- 796932318
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