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“Control-Alt-Delete”: Rebooting Solutions for the E-Waste Problem
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A number of efforts have been launched to solve the global electronic waste (e-waste) problem. The efficiency of e-waste recycling is subject to variable national legislation, technical capacity, consumer participation, and even detoxification. E-waste management activities result in procedural irregularities and risk disparities across national boundaries. We review these variables to reveal opportunities for research and policy to reduce the risks from accumulating e-waste and ineffective recycling. Full regulation and consumer participation should be controlled and reinforced to improve local e-waste system. Aiming at standardizing best practice, we alter and identify modular recycling process and infrastructure in eco-industrial parks that will be expectantly effective in countries and regions to handle the similar e-waste stream. Toxicity can be deleted through material substitution and detoxification during the life cycle of electronics. Based on the idea of "Control-Alt-Delete", four patterns of the way forward for global e-waste recycling are proposed to meet a variety of local situations.
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- Li, J., Zeng, X., Chen, M., Ogunseitan, O. A., & Stevels, A.
- Venue
- Environmental Science & Technology
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2015-06-04
- Volume
- 49
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 7095-7108
- ISSN
- 0013-936X (ISSN-L)
- 1520-5851
- OpenAlex
- W636493565
- Cited by
- 237
- References
- 6
- FWCI
- 40.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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