Circular Economy Model for the E-Waste Management Sector

Circular Economy Model for the E-Waste Management Sector

Dileep Baburao Baragde, Amit Uttam Jadhav
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5116-5.ch011
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Abstract

The circular economy (CE) model has become highly relevant in recent years, with the electronics industry being one of the divisions that have thought about its application. Regardless of just a constrained measure of writing being accessible on waste electric and electronic equipment (e-waste), electronic waste or e-waste is a developing and quickly developing test for waste administration in the world. E-waste is a term for electronic items that have turned out to be undesirable, non-working, or outdated, and have basically come to the 'part of the arrangement', inside only a couple of brief years, given the quick innovative advances inside the business. E-waste is created from anything electronic —PCs, TVs, screens, PDAs, PDAs, VCRs, CD players, fax machines, printers, and coolers— and is commonly broken into two classes, information technology (IT) and consumer electronics (CE), on account of divergent systems and technologies required for recycling these products.
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The circular economy (CE) model has become highly relevant in recent years, with the electronics industry being one of the divisions that has thought about its application (Meloni, 2019) Regardless of just a constrained measure of writing being accessible on waste electric and electronic equipment (e-waste). Electronic waste or E-Waste is a developing and quickly developing test for waste administration in World. E-Waste, is a term for electronic items that have turned out to be undesirable, non-working or outdated, and have basically come to the 'part of the arrangement', inside only a couple of brief years, given the quick innovative advances inside the business. E-waste is created from anything electronic: PCs, TVs, screens, PDAs, PDAs, VCRs, CD players, fax machines, printers and coolers and is commonly broken into two classes, Information technology (IT) and Consumer electronics (CE) on account of divergent systems and technologies required for recycling these products.

E-Waste has both a positive and negative rescue esteem. Comprehensively, the IT class is described by positive rescue esteem where the segments can be destroyed and re-utilized and the CE classification is portrayed by negative rescue worth and comes up short on the monetary motivating force for reusing, where items are dumped back in the earth. With the IT part very much boosted and concentrated on the recuperation of base and valuable metals the CE segment, the treatment of coolers, LCD, CRTs and fluorescent lights remains to a great extent disregarded. In India the business overall is described by an enormous casual area that is utilized in the extraction of valuable metals in unsafe working conditions that post a noteworthy wellbeing hazard (Abhishek K, Awasthi, Xianlai, JinhuiLi 2016).

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