End-of-life (EoL) mobile phone management in Hong Kong households

Deng, Wenjing; Giesy, John P.; So, Chu-wing; Zheng, Hailong

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.05.056

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“…Therefore, a new type of waste has been generated, called Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) or e-waste, both in the literature and practice [6,7]. The term WEEE is used to define the obsolete forms of all sorts of devices that have parts which transmit and process data by the help of electrical current such as computers, phones, large and small household appliances, lighting equipment or medical devices [8]. In other words, WEEE is defined as electronic devices that are out of date and not functional due to breakdown, physical damage or failure [9,10].…”

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Determination of Metal Content of Waste Mobile Phones and Estimation of Their Recovery Potential in Turkey

Sahan

Küçüker

Demirel

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Waste mobile phones constitute one of the fastest growing Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) types all over the world due to technological innovations and shortening of their life span. They contain a complex mix of various materials, such as basic metals, precious metals and rare earth elements and represent an important secondary raw metal source. The main objectives of this study were to characterize the metal concentration of waste mobile phones by optimizing the inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometer (ICP-OES) operation parameters and estimate the metal recovery potential of waste mobile phones in Turkey. Therefore, selected mobile phone samples collected from a recycling center in Turkey were analyzed to determine their metal concentrations. Then, the theoretical recovery potentials of precious and rare earth metals from waste mobile phones were estimated for Turkey. The analytical methods optimized in this study can help further research activities to obtain comprehensive data for determination of the critical metals (precious metals and rare earth elements) in WEEE samples so that proper recycling and recovery strategies can be selected and implemented.

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Determination of Metal Content of Waste Mobile Phones and Estimation of Their Recovery Potential in Turkey

Sahan

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Demirel

et al. 2019

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“…A recent questionnaire survey conducted in Hong Kong and Shenzhen also shows that more than 75% of the respondents prefer to store their obsolete mobile phones at home rather than recycle them (Deng et al, 2017). An online survey of lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycling also shows that 59.6% of respondents in China store their spent LIBs at home, whereas only 29.5% recycle spent LIBs with whole electronics units (Gu et al, 2017).…”

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“…Even so, only a small quantity of collected e-waste reaches authorized recyclers, and such waste flowing into the informal processing sector is sorted and dismantled using primitive methods in open air (Awasthi and Li, 2017). Recovery price, convenience and personal information security are the main factors that influence customers' willingness to engage in e-waste recycling (Deng et al, 2017).…”

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Collaborative collection effort strategies based on the “Internet + recycling” business model

Hui-yun

Zhou

2019

Journal of Cleaner Production

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“…Despite their significant role in people's lives, technological products are often replaced far before their functional lifetime expires [Huang and Truong 2008]. The Consumer Technology Association [2014] report the average smartphone functional life expectancy to be 4.7 years however several studies show the average consumer replaces their smartphone in the first 12-24 months [Deng et al 2017;Read 2015]. This rate of consumption referred by Huang and Truong [2008, p. 323] as a "disposable technology paradigm" amplifies a number of sustainability issues such as resource scarcity and e-waste management [Deng, Giesy, So and Zheng 2017].…”

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“…The Consumer Technology Association [2014] report the average smartphone functional life expectancy to be 4.7 years however several studies show the average consumer replaces their smartphone in the first 12-24 months [Deng et al 2017;Read 2015]. This rate of consumption referred by Huang and Truong [2008, p. 323] as a "disposable technology paradigm" amplifies a number of sustainability issues such as resource scarcity and e-waste management [Deng, Giesy, So and Zheng 2017]. From a sustainability perspective, promoting emotional user-object relationships through design has been considered as a viable strategy to address issues with the rate of product consumption [Gegenbauer and Huang 2012;Huang and Truong 2008].…”

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Designing Meaningful Products in the Digital Age

Orth

Thurgood

Hoven

2019

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Devices such as phones, laptops and tablets have become central to the ways in which many people communicate with others, conduct business and spend their leisure time. This type of product uniquely contains both physical and digital components that affect how they are perceived and valued by users. This article investigates the nature of attachment in the context of technological possessions to better understand ways in which designers can create devices that are meaningful and kept for longer. Findings from our study of the self-reported associations and meaningfulness of technological possessions revealed that the digital contents of these possessions were often the primary source of meaning. Technological possessions were frequently perceived as systems of products rather than as singular devices. We identified several design opportunities for materialising the associations ascribed to the digital information contained within technological products to more meaningfully integrate their physical and digital components.

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End-of-life (EoL) mobile phone management in Hong Kong households

Cited by 38 publications

References 15 publications

Determination of Metal Content of Waste Mobile Phones and Estimation of Their Recovery Potential in Turkey

Determination of Metal Content of Waste Mobile Phones and Estimation of Their Recovery Potential in Turkey

Collaborative collection effort strategies based on the “Internet + recycling” business model

Designing Meaningful Products in the Digital Age

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