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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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Economic analysis of waste electrical and electronic equipment management: a study involving recycling cooperatives in Brazil
Daniel Baratieri Valente,Ricardo César da Silva Guabiroba,Marco Antonio Conejero,Marcelino Aurélio Vieira da Silva,Aldara da Silva César +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated whether it is attractive for recycling cooperatives in a determined Brazilian municipality to include a selective collection of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in their operating systems and concluded that WEEE inclusion is economically attractive when recycling cooperative receives support from scrap dealers and the government.
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Optimized bioengineered copper recovery from Electronic Wastes to Increase Recycling and Reduce Environmental Impact
TL;DR: In this article , a bio-leaching solution was used to extract copper from comminuted e-waste by placing it in small columns to simulate small sections of heaps to demonstrate the viability of metal recovery from ewaste.
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Managing Electronic Waste with Recycling: A Review of Developing and Developed Regions
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore how electronic waste (e-waste) is managed through recycling in the developing and developed regions, and suggest an approach towards recycling of ewaste in a manner friendly to the environment.
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Managing Electronic Waste Pollution: Policy Options and Challenges
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the current status and management of e-waste in Pakistan, with an emphasis on describing the key sources, impacts, and challenges in the management of waste in the country.
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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.