Synergizing industrialized and developing countries to improve resource recovery for e-waste: Case study Belgium - Kenya

Due to high labor costs, e-waste recycling companies in industrialized countries increasingly adopt destructive mechanical pre-processing based treatments. These processes perform poorly for precious metals and plastics due to material incompatibility and increased entropy, resulting in low effectiv...

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Autor: Vanegas Pena, Paúl Fernando
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Ecuador
Institución:Universidad de Cuenca
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E-Waste
Recycling
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spelling Synergizing industrialized and developing countries to improve resource recovery for e-waste: Case study Belgium - KenyaVanegas Pena, Paúl FernandoDisassemblyE-WasteRecyclingWeeeDue to high labor costs, e-waste recycling companies in industrialized countries increasingly adopt destructive mechanical pre-processing based treatments. These processes perform poorly for precious metals and plastics due to material incompatibility and increased entropy, resulting in low effective recycling efficiencies for these material categories. In developing countries most e-waste treatments consist of manual dismantling, followed by primitive refining techniques, which is not only inefficient, but also poses a serious threat to the environment. This article assesses, from an economic and environmental perspective, a cooperation scenario between Belgium and Kenya in which manual dismantling and state of the art metal refining techniques for recycling computers are combined. Findings show that international cooperation could offer a more sustainable solution, yet measures must be taken to avoid the cherry picking of valuable components and environmentally unsound disposal of the remaining parts. © 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.ELSEVIER2018-01-11T16:47:37Z2018-01-11T16:47:37Z2014-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdf22128271https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84903626104&doi=10.1016%2fj.procir.2014.06.089&partnerID=40&md5=26e1850c076aa32cf7b032f954017b73http://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/handle/123456789/2917210.1016/j.procir.2014.06.089Procedia CIRPreponame:Repositorio Universidad de Cuencainstname:Universidad de Cuencainstacron:UCUENCAen_USinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2020-08-01T01:15:23Zoai:dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec:123456789/29172Institucionalhttp://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/Universidad públicahttps://www.ucuenca.edu.ec/http://dspace.ucuenca.edu.ec/oai.Ecuador...opendoar:41862020-08-01T01:15:23Repositorio Universidad de Cuenca - Universidad de Cuencafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Synergizing industrialized and developing countries to improve resource recovery for e-waste: Case study Belgium - Kenya
title Synergizing industrialized and developing countries to improve resource recovery for e-waste: Case study Belgium - Kenya
spellingShingle Synergizing industrialized and developing countries to improve resource recovery for e-waste: Case study Belgium - Kenya
Vanegas Pena, Paúl Fernando
Disassembly
E-Waste
Recycling
Weee
title_short Synergizing industrialized and developing countries to improve resource recovery for e-waste: Case study Belgium - Kenya
title_full Synergizing industrialized and developing countries to improve resource recovery for e-waste: Case study Belgium - Kenya
title_fullStr Synergizing industrialized and developing countries to improve resource recovery for e-waste: Case study Belgium - Kenya
title_full_unstemmed Synergizing industrialized and developing countries to improve resource recovery for e-waste: Case study Belgium - Kenya
title_sort Synergizing industrialized and developing countries to improve resource recovery for e-waste: Case study Belgium - Kenya
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Vanegas Pena, Paúl Fernando
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Disassembly
E-Waste
Recycling
Weee
topic Disassembly
E-Waste
Recycling
Weee
description Due to high labor costs, e-waste recycling companies in industrialized countries increasingly adopt destructive mechanical pre-processing based treatments. These processes perform poorly for precious metals and plastics due to material incompatibility and increased entropy, resulting in low effective recycling efficiencies for these material categories. In developing countries most e-waste treatments consist of manual dismantling, followed by primitive refining techniques, which is not only inefficient, but also poses a serious threat to the environment. This article assesses, from an economic and environmental perspective, a cooperation scenario between Belgium and Kenya in which manual dismantling and state of the art metal refining techniques for recycling computers are combined. Findings show that international cooperation could offer a more sustainable solution, yet measures must be taken to avoid the cherry picking of valuable components and environmentally unsound disposal of the remaining parts. © 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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