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The formal electronic recycling industry: Challenges and opportunities in occupational and environmental health research

Environment International, 2016
Background: E-waste includes electrical and electronic equipment discarded as waste without intent of reuse. Informal e-waste recycling, typically done in smaller, unorganized businesses, can expose workers and communities to serious chemical health ...
Diana Maria Ceballos, Zhao Dong
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Proposing Circular Economy for Enhancing the e-Waste Recycling in Turkiye [PDF]

Türkiye İslam İktisadı Dergisi
Wastes from electrical and electronics equipment (WEEE), also referred to as e-waste, contain high-value of precious metals. Yet WEEE has huge adverse environmental threats and health hazards. Several literatures have examined the adverse effects of WEEE,
Ayman Mohammad Bakr, Mohamed Cherif El Amri, Mustafa Omar Mohammed, Hüsrev Kastacı, Turan Erol   +4 more
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Electronic Waste and Existing Processing Routes: A Canadian Perspective

Resources, 2016
Electrical and electronic products have become an integral part of the current economy and, with the development of newer technologies, the life span of these products are getting shorter.
Amit Kumar, Maria Holuszko
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Spatial distribution and hazard of halogenated flame retardants and polychlorinated biphenyls to common kingfisher (Alcedo atthis) from a region of South China affected by electronic waste recycling

Environment International, 2019
Numerous studies have reported bioaccumulation of halogenated flame retardants (HFRs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in wildlife from electronic waste (e-waste) recycling sites.
Ying Peng, Jiangping Wu, Xiaojun Luo, Xiaowei Zhang, John P. Giesy, Bixian Mai   +5 more
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E-Waste Recycling Challenges and Opportunities

RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary, 2022
In this research paper, we have briefly described about the topic “E-Waste Recycling Challenges and Opportunities.” The rapid growth of technology and the rising use of electronic items worldwide have led to large amounts of electronic garbage (e-waste), which poses serious environmental and health risks.  Besides precious metals like gold, silver, and
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University students' e-waste disposal and recycling behavior: a cross-cultural study using an integrated psychological model

Frontiers in Sustainability
The escalating global volume of electronic waste (e-waste), coupled with low recycling rates, poses a significant environmental and public health challenge.
Duy Duc Trinh, Ryo Sakurai
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Nano-Pt Skin Coated Carbonized Wood Chips with High Catalytic Activity for Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Methanol

International Journal of Electrochemical Science, 2018
A exquisite structure of Nano-Pt Skin (NPS) with high catalytic activity for electrocatalytic oxidation of methanol was fabricated by an in-situ electrodeposition method. Bio-renewable carbonized wood chips (CWCs) ware acted as the precursor of substrate
Chunyong Zhang, Fang Lu, Jiehong Cheng, Hengfei Qin, Binglong Zhu, Quanfa Zhou   +5 more
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Thermodynamic-Based Exergy Analysis of Precious Metal Recovery out of Waste Printed Circuit Board through Black Copper Smelting Process

Energies, 2019
Exergy analysis is one of the useful decision-support tools in assessing the environmental impact related to waste emissions from fossil fuel. This paper proposes a thermodynamic-based design to estimate the exergy quantity and losses during the ...
Maryam Ghodrat, Bijan Samali, Muhammad Akbar Rhamdhani, Geoffrey Brooks   +3 more
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The Circular Economy of E-Waste in the Netherlands: Optimizing Material Recycling and Energy Recovery

Journal of Engineering, 2017
In the Netherlands, waste electric and electronic equipment (e-waste) is an important point for discussion on the circular economy agenda. This paper shows the Dutch example of how “waste” can be turned into a resource, and the climate change benefits ...
Laura Golsteijn, Elsa Valencia Martinez
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Sustainable development assessment of household e-waste reverse supply chains from an environmental ethic perspective

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The rapid increase in global e-waste generation, coupled with the shortening life cycles of electronic products, has intensified the environmental challenges associated with household e-waste.
Xueying Yu, Zhiyuan Sun, Dongshi Sun, Rui He   +3 more
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