Andréa Moura Bernardes

TL;DR: In this paper, the current status of technologies applied to recycle portable batteries, e.g. lead acid will not be described here, are reviewed and a review of the technologies involved in the collection, sorting and processing of portable batteries is presented.

TL;DR: The results demonstrate the technical viability of recovering copper using mechanical processing followed by an electrometallurgical technique and the copper obtained by electrowinning is above 98% in most of the tests.

TL;DR: Printed circuit boards, which are used in personal computers, were studied in order to recover the metals in the circuit boards through mechanical processing, such as crushing, screening, as well as magnetic and electrostatic separation, to demonstrate the feasibility of using these processes to separate metal fractions from polymers and ceramics.

TL;DR: In this article, the main battery-recycling processes currently used and those that are being developed are described and discussed, as well as technological options for the recycling of lead acid, Zn-C, ZN-MnO 2, nickel metal hydride, nickel-cadmium, lithium and lithium ion batteries.

TL;DR: The Lean & Green Model as discussed by the authors adopts a Kaizen approach to improve mass and energy flows in manufacturing environments that already possess the necessary deployment level to apply lean thinking The model was designed for, and is limited to, the cell level, which is the first stream level of a manufacturing business that supports the principles of lean thinking.