End-of-Life Treatment Strategies for Flat Screen Televisions: A Case Study

Peeters, Jef; Vanegas, Paúl; Dewulf, Wim

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27290-5_15

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“…The presented research focuses on electronic displays, because the material composition of this waste stream has drastically changed, as a result of new legislation and the shift from CRT to FPD technologies (Peeters et al, 2012). Compared to other waste streams, such as cooling appliances, the plastic waste of electronic displays represents a more complex waste stream, because it contains a higher diversity of plastics.…”

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Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings

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Because of the rapid succession of technological developments, the architecture and material composition of many products used in daily life have drastically changed over the last decades. As a result, well-adjusted recycling technologies need to be developed and installed to cope with these evolutions. This is essential to guarantee continued access to materials and to reduce the ecological impact of our material consumption. However, limited information is currently available on the material composition of arising waste streams and even less on how these waste streams will evolve. Therefore, this paper presents a methodology to forecast trends in the material composition of waste streams. To demonstrate the applicability and value of the proposed methodology, it is applied to forecast the evolution of plastic housing waste from flat panel display (FPD) TVs, FPD monitors, cathode ray tube (CRT) TVs and CRT monitors. The results of the presented forecasts indicate that a wide variety of plastic types and additives, such as flame retardants, are found in housings of similar products. The presented case study demonstrates that the proposed methodology allows the identification of trends in the evolution of the material composition of waste streams. In addition, it is demonstrated that the recycling sector will need to adapt its processes to deal with the increasing complexity of plastics of end-of-life electronic displays while respecting relevant directives.

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Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings

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“…Moreover, the peak at the region 1348-1049 cm −1 gives clear idea about the acrylic group in the material. In addition to above stated procedures, near infrared technique could be useful in identification of r-PMMA component from LCDs since they are transparent in nature [22].…”

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“…Recycling of end-of-life products are considered as a sequence of procedures, which include collection, segregation and re-processing of materials into useful products which have properties less or similar to its parent materials previously employed in products [19,21]. Peeters et al [22] conducted a case study over various waste treatment strategies over end-of-life flat screens, and they have reached a conclusion that recycling rate can be achieved by improving pre-processing operation such as dismantling, product sorting and clustering. Several studies have been conducted on the recycling possibilities of PMMA materials.…”

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Investigation into the mechanical and thermal properties of poly(methyl methacrylate) recovered from light guidance panels with a focus on future remanufacturing and sustainable waste management

2017

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Remanufacturing is recognized as a major circular economy option to recover and upgrade functions from post-use products. However, the inefficiencies associated with operations, mainly due to the uncertainty and variability of material flows and product conditions, undermine the growth of remanufacturing. With the objective of supporting the design and management of more proficient and robust remanufacturing processes, this paper proposes a generic and reconfigurable simulation model of remanufacturing systems. The developed model relies upon a modular framework that enables the user to handle multiple process settings and production control policies, among which token-based policies. Customizable to the characteristics of the process under analysis, this model can support logistics performance evaluation of different production control policies, thus enabling the selection of the optimal policy in specific business contexts. The proposed model is applied to a real remanufacturing environment in order to validate and demonstrate its applicability and benefits in the industrial settings.

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“…This condition may be implausible for TV recycling facilities since comprehensive TV recycling requires detailed manual disassembly and preprocessing. For example, the mercury-containing capillary tubes in LCD TVs need to be manually removed (URT 2019) and plasma TVs require manual recycling because of the high content of flame retardants (Peeters et al 2012). Manual processing is also needed to remove personal data from smart TVs.…”

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Recycling Infrastructure Development under Extended Producer Responsibility in Developing Economies

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2020

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T o tackle the severe pollution caused by electronic waste (e-waste), several developing countries have introduced e-waste legislation based on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). A major challenge to implement EPR in developing countries is the lack of formal recycling infrastructure. In this paper, we study if a collective form of EPR implementation where producers may jointly invest in recycling facilities can promote their incentives to do so. We develop a Nash bargaining model that captures the decision dynamics underlying joint recycling facility investment. We show that despite its advantage in reducing producers' fixed investment costs, joint investment in the collective system may lead to a worse recycling infrastructure development outcome than independent investment in an individual system. This can particularly happen when the collective system involves products whose recycling costs are highly differentiated. We further show that cost sharing based on the principle of Individual Producer Responsibility (IPR) may undermine the recycling infrastructure development outcome in the collective system compared to simple proportional cost sharing rules. In practice, it is generally believed that IPR leads to better design incentives than proportional cost sharing rules. Accordingly, our result indicates that there exists a tradeoff between these two cost sharing rules, and promoting recycling infrastructure development via collective systems may come at the expense of design incentives and vice versa.

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End-of-Life Treatment Strategies for Flat Screen Televisions: A Case Study

Cited by 7 publications

References 12 publications

Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings

Forecasting waste compositions: A case study on plastic waste of electronic display housings

Investigation into the mechanical and thermal properties of poly(methyl methacrylate) recovered from light guidance panels with a focus on future remanufacturing and sustainable waste management

Recycling Infrastructure Development under Extended Producer Responsibility in Developing Economies

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