Electronic Waste

Precious Waste

BMU
Repairability of smartphones and tablets clearly visible on new EU energy label
German government successfully advocates for greater ease of repair
Advanced Strategy for plastic wastes to response to the Basel Convention Young-Yeul Kang *, Na-Hyeon Cho, Ji-Yeon Kim, Young-Sam Yoon, Tae-Wan Jeon
Since joined in the Basel Convention in 1994, South Korea has established policies and strategies to minimize risks to human health and the environment caused by hazardous wastes and other wastes
District Administration Aichach-Friedberg
Art project in Dasing becomes WEEE collection point
As part of an art project, more than 50 students have contributed to the future of the recycling collection point in the district of Aichach-Friedberg.
Experts / Involved Parties
Dipl.-Ing.(TU) Werner P. Bauer
WtERT Germany GmbH
Hrvoje Akrap
City of Split
Frank Boateng Acheampong
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
E-Waste: A Hazardous Treasure Evangelos Gidarakos, Maria Aivalioti*
Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is one of the most complex and heterogeneous waste streams, containing a wide variety of substances, some hazardous, some valuable and some both.
Understand the e-waste contribution and people’s recycling behaviour in Hong Kong through a territory-wide recycling programme for USB cables Stacey C. Y. Li, Catherine W. C. Chan, Janet K. Y. Chan *
As the USB cables are made of plastics and metals, it would be a waste of resources if they were sent to the landfill directly.
Emerging Technologies and Emerging Wastes: Challenges and Opportunities Junbeum Kim
This study shows issues, challenges, and business opportunities of emerging wastes (LED lamps, photovoltaics, wind turbines, lithium-ion batteries, etc.)
Small WEEE plastics in Republic of Korea: Application Material flow analysis (MFA) and safety assessment for recycling Nahyeon Cho, Young-Yeul Kang * , Ji-Yeon Kim, Young-Sam Yoon, Tae-Wan Jeon
To realize a circular economy and carbon neutrality, it is necessary to improve factors that impede recycling, such as plastic waste treatment in the informal sector and manage hazardous substances in plastics for safety.
WtERT Germany GmbH
Better structures for the collection of household waste and recyclables in Tunisia
Under the leadership of Fraunhofer, WtERT Germany has brought its project of collection points in three cities in Tunisia to an initial conclusion.
Museo de los Residuos S.O.S. Morelia
Waste Awareness with the Waste Museum in Mexico.
In Morelia, a Mexican city, there is a waste museum dedicated to creating social awareness of waste management.
Current State of E-Waste Sampling in Germany Dipl.-Ing. (TU) Werner P. Bauer
Since January 2019, the total weight of collected WEEE in each calendar year should be at least 65 percent of the average weight of EEE placed on the market in the three previous calendar years.
WEEE Forum
Potential for Improvement in Handling of Electronic Waste
57.4 million tons of e-waste were generated worldwide this year. This represents a new record. Despite valuable raw materials, only a small fraction is recycled.
WtERT Germany
Tunisia: How to Run an Île de Propreté?
Developing Business Models in Sheltered Container Spots for a Decentralized Waste Handling by Involving All Participants
Municipality of Siliana
On its Way to a Cleaner City, Siliana Begins Operation of Tunesia’s First "île de propreté"
Raising awareness for waste separation and environment among the population is the goal of our aesthetic and sheltered mini-recycling centers
STADLER Anlagenbau GmbH
Mechanical-biological treatment plant (MBT) in Granada, Spain
The plant Ecocentral Granada was a renovation and an expansion of the old sorting and composting plant Loma de Manzanares. It is a hybrid plant, as it is able to process, with the same equipment and on different shifts, the organic fraction and the packaging waste. The plant was designed to achieve a capacity of 450.000 tons organic waste per year. In 2015 this plant processed 356.000 tons of organic waste and 8.100 tons of packaging waste.
The Straits Times
Battery recycling gets a boost with Tuas plant, Singapore
New facility can extract precious metals from spent batteries for reuse in making new ones.
CReED e.V.
Global Recycling Day
On 18 March, the Global Recycling Day took place and was dedicated to the theme #RecyclingHeroes. In this context, there were many campaigns on social media to highlight the relevance of recycling.
WEEE Centre
The WEEE Centre in Nairobi, Kenya and 15 Other Countries in Africa
The WEEE Centre, Nairobi Kenya offers recycling services for ICT waste to the general public, business, learning institutions, government and NGOs in East Africa working closely with social enterprise Close the Gap project. The increasing amount of E-waste has created a need to recycle them in an environment-friendly way and there are opportunities to reuse the ICT products to bridge technological gaps in low-income countries. Thus WEEE Centre works on the treatment of collected ICT waste by creating possibilities of reusing, dismantling and sourcing of downstream management in environmental compliance and has safely handled more than 10,000 tonnes of e-waste since inception.
www.waste-to-resources.eu
Recycling Region Harz – The Education Offensive Petra Hauschild and Jürgen Poerschke
An educational campaign is to be carried out to make children and young people, in particular, aware of these problems in an interactive way.Recycling Region
Fraunhofer Umsicht
A model region for waste management in Tunisia
In this project, which is being worked on by Fraunhofer Umsicht Sulzbach-Rosenberg with WtERT Germany and em & s, a recycling center is to be set up, among other things, in which various valuable waste materials, e.g. old electrical equipment can be registered.
Abfallwirtschaftsbetrieb München (AWM) - Waste Management Cooperation Munich
Halle 2 – Munich's second hand store as nucleus of Reuse
Winner of the EUROCITIES Awards 2017 in the categorie "cooperation".
Analysys of recyclability of household appliances I. Lovrić, G. Rozing, A. Katić
Abstract: The paper is based on the study of the cost-effectiveness of recycling by the manual disassembly of small household appliances.
Active Disassembly A. Pintarić, G. Rozing
Abstract :The paper provides for a survey of active disassembly and materials utilized for its integration in electric and electronic appliances’ production.
Storage facility private households: Utilizing unexploited potential Ralf Brüning, Julia Wolf
Electrical and electronic equipment that contains private data, such as mobile phones or notebooks, is often stored in private households.
Columbia University Earth Engineering Center
ANALYSIS OF ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLING IN THE UNITED STATES AND POTENTIAL APPLICATION IN CHINA Shumeng Liu
With increasing consumption of electrical and electronic products worldwide, the generation of electronic waste (e-waste) is growing rapidly, both in developed and developing countries. It is reported that in 2012 the generated amount in the U.S. was about 9.4 million tons and in China 7.3 million tons, just next to the U.S.
Lehrstuhl für Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben
Electronic Scrap: Do We Set the Right Priorities? Dr. Siegfried Kreibe, Dipl.- Ing. Thorsten Pitschke, Dipl.-Ing. René Peche
The debate about recycling of electronic waste usually focuses on information and communication technology (IT) and the recovery of critical raw materials (here critical metals) as a key issue.
Lehrstuhl für Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben
Resource-Oriented Recycling of Electrical and Electronic Equipment Dipl.-Ing. Julia Geiping, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sabine Flamme
Electrical and electronic equipment is a source of scarce metals such as indium, gallium and rare earth elements. Recycling is one of the most important strategies to ensure the continued supply of such elements.
Lehrstuhl für Abfallverwertungstechnik und Abfallwirtschaft der Montanuniversität Leoben
Dynamic Variation of Material Composition of Secondary Ores Dipl.-Ing. Maximilian Ueberschaar, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Vera Susanne Rotter
Through the application of high-functional and strategically important metals, waste electric and electronic equipment (WEEE) has been discussed recently as a secondary “ore”. Potential future supply risks of these specifi c materials lead to the necessity of a specialized recycling of electronic goods.
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