1st Edition

Sustainable Technologies for Value Addition to Electronic Waste

Edited By Abha Kumari, Ashok Pandey, Sang-Hyoun Kim Copyright 2026
384 Pages 47 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

This book presents a sustainable, effective, and cost-effective solution for the valorization of e-waste for the recovery of expensive, valuable, strategic, heavy, and base metals and rare earth elements. The first section covers sustainable technologies for the valorization of e-waste into metals, materials, and alloy,s followed by a section covering sustainable technologies for the... Read more

1. Valorization of Electronic Waste - 

Ms. Nishika Sharma, Mrs. Surbhi Sharma, . Manju M. Gupta, Ashok Pandey and Abha Kumari

2. Recovery of Platinum Group Metals from E-waste 

Dr. Kantamani Rama Swami
Dr. Manabu Yamada

3. Recovery of Precious Metals from E-waste

Dr. Pushpa Gautam
Mr. Gautam Mishra
Dr. Arup Kumar De
Ms. Munmun Agrawal
Dr. Kamalesh Kumar Singh
Dr. Mudila Dhanunjaya Rao
Dr. Arunabh Meshram

4. Recovery of Strategic Metals from Electronic Waste

Ms. Shatakshi Tiwari
Dr. Sugandha Aachhera
Dr. Pradeep Verma
Dr. Chandra Sekhar Gahan

5. Recovery of Semiconductor Metals from E-waste

Ms. Nishika Sharma
Mrs. Surbhi Sharma
Dr. Manju M. Gupta
Dr. Ashok Pandey
Dr. Abha Kumari

6. Recovery of Base Metals from E-waste

Dr. Abhilash
Ms. Tanuja Kumari
Dr. Pratima Meshram

7. Recovery of Toxic Metals and Heavy Metals from E-Waste

Ms. Nishika Sharma
Mrs. Surbhi Sharma
Dr. Abha Kumari
Dr. Sneha Samal

8. Recovery of Alkali Metals from E-waste

Dr. Sugandha Aachhera
Ms. Shatakshi Tiwari
Prof. Pradeep Verma
Dr. Abha Kumari

9. Recovery of Refractory Metals and Materials from E-waste

Dr. Sugandha Aachhera
Dr. Naveen Kumar
Dr. Abha Kumari

10. Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from E-waste

Dr. Tirath Raj
Dr. Sang-Hyoun Kim

11. Conversion of E-plastic to Composite Materials

Ms. Shradha Suman
Ms. Monami Mukherjee
Dr. Benadict Rakesh
Dr. Kamatchi Jothiramalingam Sankaran

12. Recovery of Plastic Value from E-waste

Dr. Jyoti Agarwal
Dr. Smruti Ranjan Mohanty
Mr. Sravan Maddipati
Dr. Chinmaya Kumar Sarangi

13. Conversion of Plastic E-waste to Biofuels

Dr. Rohidas Bhoi
Dr. Ravi Kumar Parihar
Dr. Ramdayal Panda

14. E-Waste Recycling: Impact on Circular Economy

Dr. Manoj Kumar
Dr. Dsouza Prima Frederick
Dr. Sumit Gupta

15. Application of Artificial Intelligence Tools in E-waste Management

Dr. Manoj Kumar
Dr. Shivani Agarwal
Dr. Shipra Kumari
Dr. Alisha Verma
Dr. Zeeshan Hussain Hashmi
Dr. Zia Zehra Zaidi

16. E-waste Management Policy Worldwide

Dr. Sugandha Aachhera
Dr. Naveen Kumar
Dr. Ashok Pandey
Dr. Abha Kumari

Biography

Abha Kumari is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Centre for Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India. She has earlier served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India, Visiting Researcher at the Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan, DBT Postdoctoral Fellow at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, and Postdoctoral Fellow at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada.

Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth & energy, etc.

Sang-Hyoun Kim is a full professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University and the Yonsei Lee Youn Jae Fellow (Top 10 faculty in Yonsei University). He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where he also got his master and bachelor degrees in Civil Engineering and Chemistry, respectively.