E-waste dismantling: Profitable at the cost of occupational hazard?

2015 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability, SusTech 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 165-170

  Harivardhini, S ^a   Chakrabarti, Amaresh ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

dismantler salary; e waste dismantling; Occupational hazard; Profit; recycling sectors

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION (PERSONNEL); DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HAZARDS; RECYCLING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WAGES; WASTES;

DISMANTLING PROCESS; E-WASTE RECYCLING; E-WASTES; ELECTRONICS SYSTEM; FORMAL SECTOR; INFORMAL SECTOR; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS; RETRIEVAL PROCESS;

PROFITABILITY;

EID: 84962074413     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SusTech.2015.7314341     Document Type: Conference Paper

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