Ian Williams

TL;DR: Global amounts of WEEE will continue unabated for some time due to emergence of new technologies and affordable electronics; informal recycling in developing nations has the potential of making a valuable contribution if their operations can be changed with strict safety standards as a priority.

TL;DR: The household-recycling rate in the Borough of Burnley, England in 2001/2002 was only half the national average of 12%. as mentioned in this paper employed both quantitative and qualitative surveys in order to ascertain whether householders' attitudes to recycling were contributory factors to the generally poor recycling performance and investigate other social, cultural and structural influences.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the range of current definitions proposed for a carbon footprint in the context of inventoried emissions, applications, boundaries and limitations, and argued that to only account for CO2 emissions would result in the omission of almost a third of GHGs and a significant gap in their global management, whilst inclusion of all GHGs is very timeconsuming and expensive, and should be considered only in system-specific life cycle-based assessments; this requires a separate definition, name and...

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report on three projects each using a different behaviour change based approach, which all aimed to increase participation in the recycling collection scheme and to reduce inclusion of non-targeted materials (contamination).

TL;DR: This review highlights emerging concerns, including: stockpiling of WEEE devices; reuse standards; device obsolescence; the Internet of Things, the potential for collecting space e-debris, and emerging trends in electrical and electronic consumer goods.