This book concerns the developments in the field of e-waste management with a particular focus on urban mining, sustainability, and circular economy aspects. It explains e-waste recycling technologies, supply chain aspects, and e-waste disposal in IT industries, including health and environmental effects of e-waste recycling processes, and associated issues, challenges, and solutions. Further, it describes the economic potential of resource recovery from e-waste.
Features
Covers recent developments in e-waste management.
Explores technological advances, such as nanotech from e-waste, MREW, fungal biotech, and so forth.
Reviews electronic component recycling aspects.
Discusses the implementation of circular economy in the e-waste sector.
Includes urban mining and sustainability aspects of e-waste.
This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in environmental engineering, waste management, urban mining, circular economy, waste processing, electronics, and telecommunication engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, and chemical engineering.
Author(s): Biswajit Debnath, Abhijit Das, Potluri Anil Chowdary, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 279
City: Boca Raton
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I Policies and Case Studies for Sustainable E-waste Management: Features Policies and Case Studies Adopted in Different Countries for Sustainable E-waste Management
Chapter 1 Economic Instruments for Electronic Waste Management in India
Chapter 2 The EU E-waste Policy and Regulation
Chapter 3 Comparison Analysis of E-waste Management in India and Japan: Challenges and Solutions with a Focus on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Part II Technological Advancement towards Sustainable E-waste Management: Features Progression in the Technological Aspect of E-waste Management towards Sustainability
Chapter 4 Fungal Biotechnology for the Recovery of Critical Metals from E-waste: Current Research Trends and Prospects
Chapter 5 Nanotechnology as a Cleaner and Greener Approach toward E-waste Recycling and Valorization
Part III Sustainability Aspects of E-waste Management: Features Three Pillars of Sustainability, i.e., Environment, Economic, and Social with Respect to E-waste Management
Chapter 6 Health and Environmental Effects of E-waste Recycling Processes: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions
Chapter 7 Role of Media in E-waste Awareness Generation toward Social Sustainability: An Indian Scenario
Chapter 8 Economic Potential of Resource Recovery from E-waste
Part IV Critical Aspects of Sustainable E-waste Management: Focuses on Relatively Unexplored but Critical Area of E-waste Management
Chapter 9 A Review of Security Threats from E-waste: Issues, Challenges, and Sustainability
Chapter 10 Electronic Component Recycling: Solutions toward Green Development
Part V Toward Sustainable Circular Economy in E-waste Sector: Features Approaches that Dictate Sustainable Circular Economy in the E-waste Sector
Chapter 11 Approaches to Improving the Circular Economy Paradigm in E-waste Management in India through Informal–Formal Sector Integration
Chapter 12 Consumer Behaviors in the Circular Economy with Special Focus on E-products
Chapter 13 Towards Circular Economy via Sorbent Prepared from E-waste: A Chemical Engineering Perspective
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