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Handling e-waste in developed and developing countries: initiatives, practices, and consequences.
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The faster growth of e-waste generated in the developing than in the developed world presages continued expansion of a pervasive and inexpensive informal processing sector, efficient in its own way, but inherently hazard-ridden.About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2013-10-01. It has received 438 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Extended producer responsibility & Hazardous waste.read more
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Electronic waste and their leachates impact on human health and environment: Global ecological threat and management
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors deal with the quantity of e-waste generated globally and how its different components affect important factors of the ecosystem like soil, plants, microbes, and animals, including humans.
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Environmental risk assessment of E-waste in developing countries by using the modified-SIRA method.
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that among various risks air pollution from the e-waste recycling process is a severe hazard to the population of a developing country like Pakistan and which practices and methods can be applied to reduce the impacts and improve the overall sustainability of the industry.
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Governance of electronic waste recycling based on social capital embeddedness theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between social capital, governance, and willingness to participate in e-waste recycling behavior and found that cognitive social capital and incentives on willingness to participation are limited due to the lack of coercive powers.
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The Institutionalization of Suffering: Embodied Inhabitation and the Maintenance of Health and Safety in E-waste Recycling:
TL;DR: In this article, the concept of embodied inhabitation is proposed to bring a bodily and material perspective to bear on institutional maintenance using an "inhabited institutions" framework, which is based on the notion of self-awareness.
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Efficient management of e-wastes
TL;DR: The most important reasons for e-waste recycling are waste removal as well as recovery of valuable materials present in the waste as mentioned in this paper, however, India still needs to have a rigid law for the ewaste management.
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E-waste: An assessment of global production and environmental impacts
TL;DR: Miniaturisation and the development of more efficient cloud computing networks, where computing services are delivered over the internet from remote locations, may offset the increase in E-waste production from global economic growth and theDevelopment of pervasive new technologies.
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Global perspectives on e-waste
TL;DR: The Basel Ban, an amendment to the Basel Convention that has not yet come into force, would go one step further by prohibiting the export of e-waste from developed to industrializing countries as discussed by the authors.
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Export of toxic chemicals – A review of the case of uncontrolled electronic-waste recycling
Ming Hung Wong,Shengchun Wu,Wenjing Deng,X. Z. Yu,Qian Luo,Anna Oi Wah Leung,Coby S.C. Wong,W. J. Luksemburg,A. S. Wong +8 more
TL;DR: It is obvious that the environment is highly contaminated by these toxic chemicals derived from the recycling processes, especially on tracking the exposure pathways of different toxic chemicals which may affect the workers and local residents especially mothers, infants and children.
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Spatial distribution of polybrominated diphenyl ethers and polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans in soil and combusted residue at Guiyu, an electronic waste recycling site in southeast China.
TL;DR: The crude processing of e-waste has become one of the major contributors of PBDEs and PCDD/Fs to the terrestrial environment and acid leaching and open burning emitted the highest concentrations.
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Heavy Metals Concentrations of Surface Dust from e-Waste Recycling and Its Human Health Implications in Southeast China
TL;DR: Risk assessment predicted that Pb and Cu originating from circuit board recycling have the potential to pose serious health risks to workers and local residents of Guiyu, especially children, and warrants an urgent investigation into heavy metal related health impacts.