Social impact assessment of informal recycling of electronic ICT waste in Pakistan using UNEP SETAC guidelines

Resources, Conservation and Recycling

Volumn 95, Issue , 2015, Pages 46-57

  Umair, Shakila ^a   Björklund, Anna ^a   Petersen, Elisabeth Ekener ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Electronic waste; Informal recycling; Pakistan; Social Life Cycle Assessment

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; RECYCLING; WASTES;

DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ELECTRONIC WASTE (E WASTE); INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; PAKISTAN; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; SOCIAL LIFE; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMME;

LIFE CYCLE;

DEVELOPING WORLD; GUIDELINE; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAM; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ACID DIPPING; ARTICLE; CHILD LABOR; DECISION MAKING; DUMPING; ELECTRONIC WASTE; HUMAN; INFORMAL ELECTRONIC WASTE RECYCLING; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY ELECTRONIC WASTE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MANUAL DISMANTLING; METAL EXTRACTION; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PAKISTAN; RECYCLING; SALARY; SOCIAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; SOCIAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; WASTE BURNING; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WORK; WORKING TIME;

PAKISTAN;

EID: 84920148522     PISSN: 09213449     EISSN: 18790658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2014.11.008     Document Type: Article

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