Assessment and modeling of E-waste generation based on growth rate from different telecom companies in the State of Kuwait

Al-Anzi, Bader S.; Al-Burait, Abdul Aziz; Thomas, Ashly; Ong, Chun Lian

doi:10.1007/s11356-017-0190-0

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“…The traditional pairwise comparison process used in DEMATEL measures the immediate impact. In contrast, the indirect impact is measured by a nonlinear function that considers the mutual interactions between factors [102].…”

Section: E-waste Operation Management: Tools and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-waste circular economy decision-making: a comprehensive approach for sustainable operation management in the UK

Yazdi,

Moradi,

Nedjati

et al. 2024

Neural Comput & Applic

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E-waste generation has broadly increased worldwide and is called intense pressure on sustainable practice implementation firms by recycling and redesigning the products. Thus, e-waste operation management in developed countries like the UK has become the top priority and is subjected to multiple sustainable circular economies (CE) contributing factors, including social, technical, environmental, and governmental policies. The authorized decision-makers can benefit from a well-established systematic decision-making tool to assess and evaluate the e-waste operation management considering the potential CE contributing factors. An extensive literature overview is expanded to identify the most relevant and influential contributing factors to e-waste CE. The city of London Metropolitan has been selected as the case location. In this regard, it is necessary to utilize an advanced multi-criteria decision-making tool to explore the interdependency and causality of CE-relevant factors. The present study proposed an innovative decision-making approach to address the multiple contributing factors of causality, interdependency, data, and model uncertainty in practice. It uses the step-wise weighted influence nonlinear gauge system method integrated with Fermatean fuzzy linguistic sets. This study conducted a sensitivity analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed decision-making approach in e-waste operation management. The results are promising, clearly demonstrating the framework’s competence. The CE index, crucial in designing e-waste operation management strategies, was calculated to be 2.8036. Among the various factors analyzed, “Environmental Management Systems” emerged as the most significant driving factor. This underscores the critical need to improve environmental management systems within e-waste operations.

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Section: E-waste Operation Management: Tools and Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

E-waste circular economy decision-making: a comprehensive approach for sustainable operation management in the UK

Yazdi,

Moradi,

Nedjati

et al. 2024

Neural Comput & Applic

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“…Mobile phones alone contributed to 3000 tons of e-waste in Kuwait. Life cycle assessment on mobile phones in Kuwait suggested due to the import of electronic goods and consumerism, a high e-waste generation is expected in only 2 years (Al-Anzi et al, 2017). However, the country still lacks specific policies and regulations based on e-waste management (Forti et al, 2020) Majority of the e-waste in Kuwait is destined to the landfills.…”

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confidence: 99%

OBSERVING OF POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDES) IN SOME SOIL/SEDIMENT SAMPLES RESULTED FROM the ELECTRNOIC WASTE (CASE STUDY: KUWAIT COUNTRY)

Almutairi,

Hewehy,

Khalil

et al. 2023

Journal of Environmental Science

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Electronic waste is Kuwait's fastest-growing waste stream and one of the largest per capita producers among Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries. Due to the increased obsolescence of technologies and the quickening pace of technological advancement, this waste stream is anticipated to grow 5 to 7% annually. Furthermore, Kuwait uses the same landfills to dispose of both traditional and electronic trash. Serious questions are raised about the potential effects on locals' and the environment's wellbeing. Based on the present state of knowledge, strategies and laws can then be suggested for Kuwait to lessen human exposure to e-waste. The present study explored the level of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs) in four different locations in Kuwait. Al Shaqaya -Amghara-Shuab -Kisr from October 2021 till October 2022.Total BDEs ranged from 88738.2 to 124310.3 pg/g (110259.6 ± 13747.6 pg/g). Both the mean values of Σ10BDEs and BDE-209 showed a trend of Shuaiba > Amghara > Al Shaqaya > KISR.The risks that PBDEs in the soil and air bring to the local population in those areas were also assessed. The case study made obvious the long-term cancer risks that the prevalent BDE-209 posed to the local population.

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“…The rules and guidelines on e-waste control are any other major studies subject matter in e-waste control [6]. Several extraordinary opinions were posted that cowl the e-waste control rules and guidelines from round the sector [7,8]…”

Section: A Sustainable E-waste Managementmentioning

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A Review on E-waste Management For its Effective Implementation in India

Bhale¹,

Biradar²

2021

International Journal of Computational and Electronic Aspects in Engineering

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Studies on sustainable control of waste from electric and digital equipment (or e-waste) have received growing interest from researchers round the sector in latest years, with investigations into diverse factors of e-waste control had been investigated. Using content material evaluation, 3 primary factors of the present research had been evaluated: the distribution and traits of the publications, the scope and barriers of the research, and the modern studies practices and studies application. Another obstacle became observed associated with the variations withinside the choice of studies topics and the extent of evaluation led to versions withinside the scopes and barriers of the present research. Various different studies regions had been investigated in addition primarily based totally on their studies findings; however, the evaluation of diverse methodological factors became complex because of the growing variety of newly advanced methodologies and the dearth of complete and updated evaluations in this studies area. We observed that complete and updated evaluations of the methodological factors of e-waste era are nevertheless lacking. Based at the studies gaps and boundaries discussed, hints for destiny studies had been made.

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Assessment and modeling of E-waste generation based on growth rate from different telecom companies in the State of Kuwait

Cited by 15 publications

References 31 publications

E-waste circular economy decision-making: a comprehensive approach for sustainable operation management in the UK

E-waste circular economy decision-making: a comprehensive approach for sustainable operation management in the UK

OBSERVING OF POLYBROMINATED DIPHENYL ETHERS (PBDES) IN SOME SOIL/SEDIMENT SAMPLES RESULTED FROM the ELECTRNOIC WASTE (CASE STUDY: KUWAIT COUNTRY)

A Review on E-waste Management For its Effective Implementation in India

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