E-waste collection in Italy: Results from an exploratory analysis

Favot, Marinella; Grassetti, Luca

doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2017.05.026

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“…The many different factors influencing the divestment process make it impossible to establish direct causal relations between any one factor and the successful return of products. The factors went from user characteristics (e.g., gender [31] and competences [29]), to that of the product service system (e.g., physical condition of the product [32], or perceived distance to the collection point [33]), the consumption context (e.g., moving [34] or a replacement opportunity [35]) and option-related factors (e.g., lack of awareness [36]). These factors can therefore not be used as predictive triggers for the design of interventions that will actually make users return their products.…”

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Design for Divestment in a Circular Economy: Stimulating Voluntary Return of Smartphones through Design

2020

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For the transition toward a circular economy, it is essential that products are returned for reuse, refurbishing or recycling. In order to address the lack of literature on the topic from a user perspective, this paper explores how users can be stimulated to return used smartphones. Taking a Research through Design approach, we developed a novel set of "design for divestment" principles. Divestment is the process users experience when separating from a product. After introducing a conceptual model of divestment based on an extension of the Consumer Decision Process model by Blackwell, Engel, and Miniard, we describe seven empirical studies (i.e., design projects) into smartphone divestment. The studies explore factors that influence a successful divestment process. We report on a highly complex process with interrelated factors changing over time. While it is impossible to define a blueprint for an ideal divestment process, several patterns emerged such as the need to emotionally support users, to give them confidence regarding data security, and to provide information at the right moment. These unique insights contribute to consumer research (i.e., circular consumption); and by translating the insights to ten design principles for divestment, a novel contribution is made to the field of design research. benefit when returning a high-quality product? Related to the quantity of return flows, how can we create a "culture of return," where users routinely seek appropriate modes of disposition after use, e.g., donating at collection points or selling through a take-back scheme?Within the context of CE, this study focuses on design for divestment from a user perspective. It addresses these questions from a Research through Design (RtD) approach. From a design point of view, it is interesting to observe the imbalance between the extensive care put into the design of product purchase and product use experiences, and the careless way in which the final phase of consumption is often designed. We thus ask, can design contribute to creating more valuable and valued divestment processes from the user perspective?Following Gregson, Metcalfe, and Crewe [14] and Glover [15], we use the term divestment to refer to the final phase of the consumption cycle of purchase, use, and divestment. Divestment represents the combination of physical separation and mental and emotional separation processes that users go through when ending the use cycle of a product (see Table 1). Divestment is depicted here as the combination of disposition (i.e., physical separation) and detachment (i.e., mental and emotional separation of the product).

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Design for Divestment in a Circular Economy: Stimulating Voluntary Return of Smartphones through Design

2020

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“…Our review further indicates that the effectiveness of market-based instruments is linked to other institutional factors. In the area of hazardous waste management, effectiveness is associated with the level of awareness among citizens about the importance of correct disposal and the accessibility of collection and recycling stations [49,50]. For example, the hazardous waste management system in Canada is assessed to be more efficient than in many states in the US, due to a well-developed system for waste collection along with a long tradition of the public separating different waste streams [48].…”

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“…However, these EPR systems for hazardous waste do often not include a consumer refund upon product disposal but instead rely on consumers' awareness of the importance of proper disposal. Consumer behavior is also strongly linked to the availability and accessibility of collection sites [49][50][51], implying that an information-based incentive for disposal works better in countries with a developed waste management system.…”

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Market-Based Instruments for Managing Hazardous Chemicals: A Review of the Literature and Future Research Agenda

Slunge

Alpízar

2019

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We take stock of the lessons learned from using market-based instruments in chemicals management and discuss the potential for increased use of risk-based taxation in the management of pesticides and other hazardous chemicals. Many chemical substances cause significant diffuse emissions when emitted over wide areas at individually low concentrations. These emissions are typically very difficult and costly to control. The targeted chemical may exist in many products as well as in a wide variety of end uses. However, the current regulatory instruments used are primarily bans or quantitative restrictions, which are applied to individual chemicals and for very specific uses. Policy makers in the area of chemicals management have focused almost solely on chemicals with a very steep marginal damage cost curve, leading to low use of price regulations. The growing concerns about cumulative effects and combination effects from low dose exposure from multiple chemicals can motivate a broader use of market-based instruments in chemicals management.

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“…In such a context, the Reverse logistic processes of collection, recycling and reuse of Waste of Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE or e-waste) plays a critical role [6] for different reasons. Firstly, WEEE is one of the fastest growing streams of waste in the world with the highest growth rate per year (3-5%).…”

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“…Furthermore, as a large quantity of precious and special metals are in WEEEs, their recovery represents a relevant economic opportunity as it allows for saving scarce and expensive resources necessary for the production of EEE itself and other devices [14,15]. The economic convenience deriving from the reuse of materials embedded into e-wastes is indicated nowadays as one of the most important sustainability challenges able to ensure the development of the proper CE approaches [6,16].…”

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The Reverse Supply Chain of the E-Waste Management Processes in a Circular Economy Framework: Evidence from Italy

Isernia¹,

Passaro

Quinto

et al. 2019

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In the last several decades, Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) reverse supply chain management has increasingly gained more attention due to the development of an environmental awareness, the rapid raise of e-wasted products and the EU regulations. In particular, although the new EU WEEE collection target has not been reached by many EU countries, several studies show that an optimized WEEE wastes management processes could represent a relevant way to achieve economic, environmental and social benefits expected by the adoption of circular economy approaches. According to this, the paper aims to evaluate the extent to which the current Italian organization of the WEEE management system and the related legislation are able to support the achievement of the targets defined by EU with a specific focus on the collection centers (CCs) which play a key role being the initial point of the WEEE reverse logistic cycle. An illustrative analysis based on the transition probability matrix regarding both the e-waste collecting performance and the distribution of collecting centers in the Italian provinces is illustrated. Furthermore, we have analyzed the presence of a correlation between the WEEE collection rate and the presence of the CCs in different provinces in order to better comprehend the role that can play both the investments in CC system and other soft measures in achieving the WEEE collection targets. Results show that the current Italian organization of the WEEE management system and the related legislations are not so effective in supporting the achievement of EU WEEE collection targets at the national level, although some geographical areas and provinces outperform the EU targets.

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E-waste collection in Italy: Results from an exploratory analysis

Cited by 31 publications

References 33 publications

Design for Divestment in a Circular Economy: Stimulating Voluntary Return of Smartphones through Design

Design for Divestment in a Circular Economy: Stimulating Voluntary Return of Smartphones through Design

Market-Based Instruments for Managing Hazardous Chemicals: A Review of the Literature and Future Research Agenda

The Reverse Supply Chain of the E-Waste Management Processes in a Circular Economy Framework: Evidence from Italy

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