1st Edition
Development in E-waste Management Sustainability and Circular Economy Aspects
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.
Chapter 1
Economic Instruments for Electronic Waste Management in India
Harveen Kaur, Jeremy Lin
Chapter 2
The EU e-waste policy and regulation
Lorenzo Sasso
Chapter 3
Comparison Analysis of E-waste Management in India and Japan: Challenges and Solutions with Focus on COVID-19 Pandemic
Satoka Shimizu
Chapter 4
Fungal Biotechnology for Recovery of Critical Metals from E-waste: Current Research Trends and Prospects
Amber Trivedi, Kavita Kanaujia, Kumar Upyan, Subrata Hait
Chapter 5
Nanotechnology as a cleaner and greener approach towards E-Waste Recycling and Valorization
Tirthankar Mukherjee, Shweta Mitra, Sunil Herat, Prasad Kaparaju
Chapter 6
Health and Environmental Effects of E-waste Recycling Processes: Issues, challenges and solutions
Anisha Modak, Pousali Bhattacharjyya
Chapter 7
Role of Media in E-Waste Awareness Generation: An Indian Scenario
Chayan Acharya
Chapter 8
Economic Potential of Resource Recovery from E-waste
Rohit Panchal, Hema Diwan, Anju Singh
Chapter 9
A Review of Security Threats from E-waste: Issues, Challenges, and Sustainability
Sanchari Das, A.K.M. Salman Hosain, Biswajit Debnath
Chapter 10
Electronic Component Recycling: Solutions Towards Green Development
Indrashis Saha, Rayan Kundu, Saswati Gharami
Chapter 11
Approaches to Improving the Circular Economy Paradigm in E-waste Management in India through Informal-Formal Sector Integration
Gautam Mehra, Rachna Arora, Reva Prakash, Abhijit Banerjee
Chapter 12
Consumer behaviors in the circular economy with special focus on e-products
Tetiana Shevchenko, Yuriy Danko
Chapter 13
Towards Circular Economy via Sorbent prepared from E-waste: A Chemical Engineering perspective
Suparna Bhattacharyya, Tathagata Mukherjee
Biography
Biswajit Debnath, Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
