Willingness and behavior towards e-waste recycling for residents in Beijing city, China

Wang, Zhaohua; Zhang, Bin; Yin, Jianhua; Xiang, Zhang

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2010.09.016

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“…Beukering and Bergh (2006) showed that willingness to recycle decreases if recycling is time-consuming. Wang et al (2011) discovered that recycling habits and inconvenient accessibility to recycling centres in Beijing were the key factors that negatively affected residents' recycling behaviour.…”

Section: Barriers For Return and Recycling Behaviourmentioning

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Drivers and barriers to return and recycling of mobile phones. Case studies of communication and collection campaigns

Welfens

Nordmann

Seibt

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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This article analyses drivers and barriers to returning and recycling mobile phones and their consideration in existing communication and collection campaigns. This is an important issue based on the fact that the mobile phone market is growing rapidly. In 2015 there are nearly 7 billion global mobile cellular subscriptions. This means that, at least theoretically, everyone in the world has access to mobile communication services (ITU 2015).However, the production of mobile phones is linked to an increasing use of natural resources: the "ecological rucksack" of a mobile phone is equal to about 75 kg of resources ; while the global recycling rate of mobile phones is under 10 per cent (Nokia 2008, Tanskanen 2012.In order to adress this issue, the main factors that influence return and recycling behaviour (focussing on mobile phones) will be discussed in chapter 2 of this article. The theoretical analysis is based on the norm activation model by Ellen Matthies (2005). This analysis will be complemented by empirical data and findings generated in the research project "Return and use of

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Section: Barriers For Return and Recycling Behaviourmentioning

confidence: 99%

Drivers and barriers to return and recycling of mobile phones. Case studies of communication and collection campaigns

Welfens

Nordmann

Seibt

2016

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…There are 300,000 such people in Beijing alone. They sell to uncertified disposal plants 9 ; these pay higher prices than the certified ones, which have larger overheads. Elsewhere -in Guiyu, for example, or in Agbogbloshie in Ghanapeople sift e-waste from household rubbish and sell it for uncertified disposal.…”

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Zhang

Guan

2016

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“…For instance, it is estimated that collected WEEE amounts in the EU are only around one-third of the amounts of EEE put on the market annually [55]. Shortcomings in awareness and economic incentives explain it partly; however, several studies show that the more inconvenient the recycling schemes are, the lower also the participation and recovery rates [56,57], which seems to be the case also in many WEEE recycling schemes [58][59][60].…”

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Drivers and Constraints of Critical Materials Recycling: The Case of Indium

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Pongrácz

2016

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Abstract:Raw material criticality studies are receiving increasing attention because an increasing number of elements of great economic importance, performing essential functions face high supply risks. Scarcity of key materials is a potential barrier to large-scale deployment of sustainable energy and clean-tech technologies as resorting to several critical materials. As physical scarcity and geopolitical issues may present a barrier to the supply of critical metals, recycling is regarded as a possible solution to substitute primary resources for securing the long-term supply of critical metals. In this paper, the main drivers and constraints for critical materials recycling are analyzed from literature, considering indium as a case study of critical materials. This literature review shows that waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) could be a future source of critical metals; however, the reduction of dissipation of critical materials should have much higher priority. It is put forward that more attention should be paid to sustainable management of critical materials, especially improved practices at the waste management stage. This calls for not only more efficient WEEE recycling technologies, but also revising priorities in recycling strategies.

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Willingness and behavior towards e-waste recycling for residents in Beijing city, China

Cited by 240 publications

References 30 publications

Drivers and barriers to return and recycling of mobile phones. Case studies of communication and collection campaigns

Drivers and barriers to return and recycling of mobile phones. Case studies of communication and collection campaigns

Take responsibility for electronic-waste disposal

Drivers and Constraints of Critical Materials Recycling: The Case of Indium

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