International aspects of recycling of electrical and electronic equipment: material circulation in the East Asian region

Hosoda, Eiji

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“…By analyzing these documents, and by performing a field survey (in Germany, Holland, Sweden, Austria, and France), the present authors were able to conduct a comparative study of Japan and the EU as developed countries with respect to the achievements and challenges of their WEEE recycling systems: we focused on three dimensions: (1) material flow analysis, (2) regime-actor analysis, and (3) economical analysis, which the study of circular economy requires (see Yoshida, 2005). Previous studies of WEEE have focused in the main upon aspects of the material flow ( Jofre and Morioka, 2005;Tasaki, 2006;Terazono et al, 2006) or on an analysis of the economical features (Hosoda, 2007). Here, we attempt to analyze the WEEE recycling system through a focus on a combination of three interrelated issues: (1) the need to improve the collection rate of WEEE, (2) questions of the cost and the quality of recycling, and (3) the problems of crossborder recycling.…”

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Japan, the European Union, and Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Recycling: Key Lessons Learned

Yoshida

2010

Environmental Engineering Science

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This article considers how Japan and the EU manage the recycling of consumer appliances and PCs=cellular phones through a review of their current collection and treatment systems for WEEE (waste electronic and electrical equipment), and on the basis of its findings offers recommendations for the improvement of these systems. We hope thereby to provide information that will be helpful for the better management of WEEE in developed countries as well as in our own. On the basis of our findings, we make the following recommendations: (1) that if Japan hopes to increase its collection rate of WEEE, it has to change its system from one where payment is made at the time of disposal to one where payment is made in advance, whereas the EU has to offer both users and recyclers greater incentives to collect more WEEE; (2) that, within the Japanese system, we have to reduce the cost without reducing the quality of recycling, which, because consumers pay at the time of disposal, is too expensive, whereas the EU must restore the former quality of its recycling, which has been allowed to deteriorate because of the pressure to reduce costs; and (3) that Japan and the EU need to set up a common fund that will enable them to cooperate in the collection and treatment of WEEE to oversee the problems occasioned by the practice of cross-border recycling.

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Japan, the European Union, and Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Recycling: Key Lessons Learned

Yoshida

2010

Environmental Engineering Science

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“…Indeed, Table 1 shows that the data are available for used buses and trucks from the GTI-DB, and the database also covers used products such as home appliances and electronic goods. 7 This estimation method can also contribute to the evaluation of e-waste, 41,42 which is an increasingly serious global environmental concern. One caution, however, is that when there is limited data availability for used products from the GTI-DB, it is very important to estimate the division model given by Eq.…”

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Estimation of world trade for used automobiles

Fuse

Kosaka

Kashima

2009

J Mater Cycles Waste Manag

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In order to provide the basic information for building an international automobile recycling system, this article attempts to estimate the multilateral trade for used automobiles. First, the problems in evaluation of the used automobile trade were clarifi ed through the trade data obtained from the United Nations database (UN-DB) and the Global Trade Information Services database (GTI-DB). Furthermore, we developed an estimation method for the used automobile trade using the highlighted advantages of the UN-DB and GTI-DB. The reasons for employing this estimation method were to correct the systematic errors in both databases and to sample used automobile data from the UN-DB by using the new and used automobile information in the GTI-DB. The world trade volume for used passenger cars in 2005 was estimated by the method developed. These results indicated that total trade volume was 5.65 × 10 6 vehicles, and that the exports from Germany, the United States, and Japan comprise 22%, 21%, and 20% of the global total, respectively. Moreover, the results indicate that these countries export used passenger cars not only to developing countries (54%), but also to developed countries (46%).

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“…There is no recycling law that specifically targets mobile phone waste, despite the fact that more than 25 million units are discarded every year. It is estimated that only 40 % of mobile phone waste is collected by retailers [40].…”

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Electronic Waste: Generation and Management

Veit

Bernardes

2015

Electronic Waste

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The electronics industry is one of the most important industries in the world. It has grown steadily in recent decades, generates a great number of jobs, promotes technological development and, at the same time, fuels a high demand for raw materials that are considered scarce or rare (e.g. precious metals and rare earths elements).This development affects the environment in two ways: first through the large and growing amount of equipment that is discarded annually and second through the extraction of natural raw materials to supply the demand of the new equipment industry. Both can be measured by the amount of equipment that is produced and discarded annually by many countries.The main manufacturers and generators of electronic waste are considered to be developed or developing countries. According to Robinson [1], most electronic waste is generated in Europe and the United States. However, China, the countries of Eastern Europe and Latin America are becoming large generators of electronic waste.Estimates indicate that about 40 million tonnes of this waste are generated each year, or approximately 5 % of all solid waste generated in the world [2]. Another study, from Greenpeace, estimated that globally 20-50 million tonnes of WEEE (waste electrical and electronic equipment) are discarded annually, with Asian countries disposing up to 12 million tonnes [3].Robinson [1] also estimated that computers, mobile phones and television sets alone would correspond to 5

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International aspects of recycling of electrical and electronic equipment: material circulation in the East Asian region

Cited by 32 publications

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Japan, the European Union, and Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Recycling: Key Lessons Learned

Japan, the European Union, and Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Recycling: Key Lessons Learned

Estimation of world trade for used automobiles

Electronic Waste: Generation and Management

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