Electronic waste management approaches: An overview

Waste Management

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1237-1250

  Kiddee, Peeranart ^a,b   Naidu, Ravi ^a,b   Wong, Ming H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Remediation of the Environment ^*  (Australia)

^c HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Electronic waste; Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR); Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Material Flow Analysis (MFA); Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA)

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC WASTE; EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; MULTI-CRITERIA ANALYSIS;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; LIFE CYCLE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

WASTES;

DEVELOPING WORLD; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; MULTICRITERIA ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECYCLING; TOXIC SUBSTANCE; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EXTENDED PRODUCER RESPONSIBILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMPACT (ENVIRONMENT); INCINERATION; LANDFILL LEACHATE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; MULTI CRITERIA ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; HUMANS; RECYCLING; TOXICITY TESTS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84877623825     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2013.01.006     Document Type: Article

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