Assessing the climate co-benefits from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling in Japan

Socio-Economic and Environmental Attributes of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (Weee) Recycling in Asia

“…WEEE recycling process chain in Japan is not a one-step process, and it consists of four different major routes such as; formal route under home appliance recycling law, second hand market for reuse, collection of unused items by informal sector and collection by local authority and treated as general waste stream (Menikpura, Santo & Hotta, 2014). Most of the collected WEEE units (e.g.…”

E-waste Management as a Global Challenge (Introductory Chapter)

“…The recent last update (2012) has posed new targets for recycling as well as for take-back collection schemes: see for example the insertion of "one-to-zero" -distributors have to take back a used product without a purchase of a new one-option for collecting small WEEE. Japan has developed a legislative system similar to the EU [10]; these two systems are quite similar in several common points [11]. A different legislative approach is applied in the US, where there is a lack of a common federal legislation about e-waste management: each state has defined its own system with specific targets and organizations [12][13].…”

Life-cycle energy use and GHG emissions of waste television treatment system in China

“…The life cycle assessment (LCA) can be used to analyse the implications arising from the implementation of WEEE legislation (Dowdell et al, 2000;Nakano et al, 2007), environmental burdens of the allied collection and recycling systems (Hischier et al, 2005;Wäger et al, 2011), and the environmental benefits of recycling (Johansson and Björklund, 2009;Menikpura et al, 2014;Diener and Tillman, 2015). Regarding CRT TVs, the current LCA mainly pays attention to CRT monitors (Parsons, 2007;Rocchetti and Beolchini, 2014), especially CRT glass (Andreola et al, 2007;Xu et al, 2013).…”