Waste electrical and electronic equipment management and Basel Convention compliance in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) nations

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 693-707

  Ghosh, Sadhan Kumar ^a   Debnath, Biswajit ^a   Baidya, Rahul ^a   De, Debashree ^a   Li, Jinhui ^b   Ghosh, Sannidhya Kumar ^c   Zheng, Lixia ^d   Awasthi, Abhishek Kumar ^b   Liubarskaia, Maria A ^e   Ogola, Jason S ^f   Tavares, André Neiva ^g  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for Asia and the Pacific   (China)

^e SAINT PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VENDA   (South Africa)

^g Innovarelab Pesquisa e Consultoria   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Basel Convention; BRICS nations; recycling; supply chain; trans boundary movement; Waste electrical and electronic equipment management

Indexed keywords

EQUIPMENT; OSCILLATORS (ELECTRONIC); RECYCLING; SUPPLY CHAINS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BASEL CONVENTION; BRICS NATIONS; EUROPEAN UNION; GROSS NATIONAL INCOMES; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; SOUTH AFRICA; TRANS-BOUNDARY; WASTE ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLIANCE; ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EUROPEAN UNION; INCOME; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTE; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; TRANSBOUNDARY POLLUTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BRAZIL; CHINA; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRONIC WASTE; ELECTRONICS; HUMAN; INDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; REVIEW; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTH AFRICA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; RECYCLING;

BRAZIL; CHINA; INDIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED STATES;

BRAZIL; CHINA; ELECTRONICS; INDIA; RECYCLING; RUSSIA; SOUTH AFRICA; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84979300845     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X16652956     Document Type: Review

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