Key drivers of the e-waste recycling system: Assessing and modelling e-waste processing in the informal sector in Delhi

Streicher‐Porte, Martin; Widmer, Rolf; Jain, Amit Kumar; Bader, Hans-Peter; Scheidegger, Ruth; Kytzia, Susanne

doi:10.1016/j.eiar.2005.04.004

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“…Results show a correlation with Streicher-porte's argument that "most developing countries lack e-waste regulations" (Streicher-porte, et al 2005). All five countries lack concrete regulations for e-waste yet the number of ICT users is continuously growing where the growth is high in all countries except Burundi.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…There are many models suggested researchers for example the Material Flow Analysis (MFA) (Streicher-porte et al, 2005). We intended to find out whether there are any methods (new models or those in practice) used to track e-waste information).…”

Section: E-waste Data Collection and Flow Analysis Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This study and its research instruments focus on the third among the ten categories listed in the EU directive on WEEE i.e., information technology and telecommunications equipment (labeled as ICT) (Streicher-porte et al, 2005;Widmer et al, 2005). The figure below shows the list of e-waste categories according to the EU WEEE directive.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…It is argued in Shinkuma & Huong (2009) that a traceability system for tracking/tracing e-waste information is required. Therefore models like Material Flow Analysis (MFA); a method applied to support the material and substance flow management in the waste (Streicher-porte et al, 2005) is required for e-waste mitigation. Wang & Chou (2009) has also studied user behavior and willingness to recycle.…”

Section: E-waste: Definitions History and Contemporary Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

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E-Waste Management in East African Community

Asiimwe

Grönlund

2012

Handbook of Research on E-Government in Emerging Economies

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The rapidly increased use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) has increased demand for electronic equipment such as mobile phones and computers. Individuals and government institutions worldwide are adopting ICTs at a fast pace. Increased consumption has resulted in huge amounts of e-Waste generated from scrapped electronics. E-Waste contains chemical substances that have adverse effects on the environment and human health. Consequently, handling of e-Waste needs to be organized in ways that minimize the adverse effects. This chapter investigates how the East African Community (EAC) governments, i.e., Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi, conceive their role in combating negative impact of e-Waste and how their views and current actions compare to the current state of the art practices in e-Waste management. As data on e-Waste handling in EAC countries is not publicly available, semi-structured interviews with high government officials and a literature review were conducted. The results show that EAC governments consider e-Waste to be an emerging problem. Despite this awareness and attempts to mitigate the problem in some of the countries, there are currently no solid solutions that have been crafted to rectify or mitigate this problem. The study suggests practical solutions for resolving e-Waste challenges in EAC.

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Section: E-waste Data Collection and Flow Analysis Modelsmentioning

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Section: E-waste: Definitions History and Contemporary Discoursementioning

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E-Waste Management in East African Community

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Grönlund

2012

Handbook of Research on E-Government in Emerging Economies

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“… The production, manufacturing and end-of-life stages of the life cycles of ICT equipment mainly occur in countries such as China, India, Thailand and Africa. Manufacturing data for China and India are difficult to obtain due to confidentiality issues and the existence of a vast informal ICT waste processing sector makes ICT EoL data very uncertain [13].  When information is transferred from DCs to users, intermediate equipment is required (e.g.…”

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Life cycle assessment of videoconferencing with call management servers relying on virtualization

Vandromme¹,

Dandres²,

Maurice³

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 Conference ICT for Sustainability

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Abstract-Recently, data centres have been called out for their particularly high energy consumption, which already accounts for 1.5% of the total global electricity consumption and is among the world's fastest growing energy consumptions. To reduce the data centres' environmental impacts, technologies such as free cooling and sustainable power sources are used. Another newly developed strategy to improve the energy efficiency of data centres is virtualization, which makes it possible to install several operating systems, known as virtual machines (VMs), so that several tasks and users can share a single server. To evaluate the environmental advantages and burdens of this strategy, assessments tools are required. Several studies have already quantified the energetic and environmental benefits of virtualization but often only considered the use phase and CO2 improvement. This study uses life cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate the environmental impacts of Internet use in videoconferencing (VC). Preliminary results show the advantages of virtualization in the manufacturing, use and endof-life phases. Indeed, when virtualization is implemented, one server can be allocated to several tasks. Therefore, the environmental burden of use and manufacturing will be allocated to the various tasks, decreasing the impact of each one.

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