New Insights into Electronic Waste Recycling in Metropolitan Areas

Leigh, Nancey Green; Choi, Taelim; Hoelzel, Nathanael Z.

doi:10.1111/j.1530-9290.2012.00525.x

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“…A couple of papers analysing the use of biogas or sewage gas for transportation in Swedish cities might also be considered examples of city-scale industrial symbiosis (Fallde and Eklund 2015 ;Vernay et al 2013 ). The topic of waste has been addressed in several papers, including work focussed on e-waste (Leigh et al 2012 ), healthcare waste (Soares et al 2013 ) and construction and demolition waste (Bohne et al 2008 ), as well as cityspecifi c waste studies (Murphy and Pincetl 2013 ;Chertow and Eckelman 2009 ). Urban infrastructure systems have been researched in both broad and narrow contexts.…”

Section: Into the Twenty-first Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Industrial Ecology and Cities

Kennedy

2016

Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

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The study of cities, or urban systems, in Industrial Ecology has a peculiar history. In the 1960s, there was a false dawn for green cities in the United States under the Experimental City project, the unfulfi lled plans for which included numerous aspects of Industrial Ecology (IE). When IE eventually began to form as a discipline in the 1990s, cities or urban systems were at best a fringe topic, although their importance was recognized by thought leaders in the fi eld. The development of research on cities as a theme within IE perhaps followed with the broadening of IE to include Social Ecology. Then the study of urban metabolism, which had its own separate literature, arguably became one of the three metabolisms within IE-along with industrial and socioeconomic. In this review of work on IE and cities, a Scopus search of ISI-rated publications fi nds over 200 papers on the topic, many of which are in the Journal of Industrial Ecology. Amongst the common themes are papers on urban industrial symbiosis, urban infrastructure frameworks, transportation, waste, energy, greenhouse gas emissions, other urban contaminants, metals, phosphorus and food in cities. The great ongoing challenge for work on IE and cities remains to understand the environmental impacts related to urban metabolism and attempt to reduce them. More specifi c examples of possible future work include determining potentials for city-scale industrial symbiosis and uncovering how much is occurring and exploring theoretical limits to the sustainability of cities using nonequilibrium thermodynamics.

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Section: Into the Twenty-first Centurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Industrial Ecology and Cities

Kennedy

2016

Taking Stock of Industrial Ecology

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“…Rules are feared will impact on corporate earnings and the reduction in the area has not been proven so that we too can and should not hesitate to apply the rules as restrictive as possible (Leigh, Choi, & Z. Hoelzel, 2012).…”

Section: Strengthening Regulationsmentioning

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Handling Solutions for Electronic Waste (E - Waste) in Indonesia

Suprayogi

2016

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Any changes always take effect to the environment either positive or negative, it is no exception developments in technology. In addition to bringing benefits to the human development, technology has always had a negative impact, actually thrash or waste from obsolete technology as the results of the process productions or side product. The mobile phones waste is one of the electronic waste that need to be awareness. Electronic waste processing in particular mobile phones as one of the new problems in the waste management, and it will be an ice mountain problem for developing countries because generally they have limited technology, insufficiency of financial and lack of human resources in the management of electronic waste that electronic trash left to accumulate for granted. Indonesia as a developing country need to strengthening regulatory, economic support and technology transfer of electronic waste management from developed countries to suppress pollution caused by electronic waste disposal carelessly.

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“…The last article to introduce is on wastes of a different kind—specifically electronic wastes (e‐wastes). Leigh () notes that an increasing number of U.S. states are passing e‐waste laws. She presents a case study of e‐waste recycling in the Seattle, Washington, USA, metropolitan area demonstrating the economic benefits of this new sector.…”

Section: Nutrients Water and Wastesmentioning

confidence: 99%