The Global Trade in E-Waste: A Network Approach

Theis, Nicholas

doi:10.1080/23251042.2020.1824308

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“…One study finds that weak enforcement in EU border countries resulted in F-gases still being accessible for old cooling units throughout the EU, and although operations to seize these illegal HFCs are impactful, further systemic changes to reduce their demand would be significant in combatting their illegal trade (165). Literature addressing the illegal global trade of WEEE has been growing over the past decade, but it has yet to specify illegal cooling waste within peer-reviewed literature (170)(171)(172).…”

Section: Enabling Circular Cooling: Policy and Business Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Cooling in a Warming World: Technologies, Cultures, and Circularity

Khosla

Renaldi

Mazzone

et al. 2022

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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Cooling is fundamental to quality of life in a warming world, but its growth trajectory is leading to a substantial increase in energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The world is currently locked into vapor-compression air conditioning as the aspirational means of staying cool, yet billions of people cannot access or afford this technology. Non–vapor compression technologies exist but have low Technological Readiness Levels. Important alternatives are passive cooling measures that reduce mechanical cooling requirements and often have long histories of local use. Equally, behavioral and cultural approaches to cooling play a vital role. Although policies for a circular economy for cooling, such as production and waste, recovery of refrigerants, and disposal of appliances, are in development, more efforts are needed across the cooling life cycle. This article discusses the knowledge base for sustainable cooling in the built environment and its significant, interconnected, and coordinated technical, social, economic, and policy approaches. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Volume 47 is October 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Enabling Circular Cooling: Policy and Business Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Cooling in a Warming World: Technologies, Cultures, and Circularity

Khosla

Renaldi

Mazzone

et al. 2022

Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour.

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“…The Theory of Ecologically Unequal Exchange Building on the concept of unequal exchange from world-systems theory and other relevant literature (Bunker 1984;1985;Rudel 1989;Hornborg 1998a;1998b;Roberts, Grimes and Manale 2003;Jorgenson and Rice 2005;Jorgenson 2006;Gellert, Frey, and Dahms 2017), environmental social scientists have introduced and developed the theory of ecologically unequal exchange (Røpke 2001;Roberts and Parks 2007;Hornborg 2009;Jorgenson, Austin, and Dick 2009;Jorgenson and Clark 2009a;2009b;Austin 2010;Foster and Holleman 2014;Jorgenson 2016;Noble 2017;Givens 2018;Givens, Huang, and Jorgenson 2019;Theis 2021). The theory of ecologically unequal exchange has roots in Ricardo's classical economic concept of unequal jwsr.pitt.edu | DOI 10.5195/JWSR.2021.1026 exchange and Marx's political economy and concept of the metabolic rift.…”

Section: Two Perspectives On Waste Flowmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecologically Unequal Exchange of Plastic Waste?

Bai

Givens

2021

JWSR

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Plastic production has been increasing since mass production of plastics started in the 1950s. As plastic production has continued to rise, so has plastic waste. Meanwhile, international trade in plastic waste has increased as well. The narrative about global trade in plastic waste oftentimes is that the Global North transfers waste to the Global South. However, little is known quantitatively about the extent to which the Global North shifts environmental harms of plastic waste to the Global South. We examine the extent to which global trade in plastic waste provides evidence for ecologically unequal exchange relationships from 2003 to 2013. We then explore whether plastic waste can be a resource for some countries. Specifically, we investigate how trade in plastic waste is associated with level of economic development in high-income countries and non-high-income countries. The findings provide nuanced evidence of ecologically unequal exchange relationships between high-income countries and non-high-income countries in plastic waste trade. The results also indicate that higher plastic waste import is associated with greater economic development in non-high-income countries. This research advances our understanding of the theory of ecologically unequal exchange in the context of international trade in plastic waste.

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“…Petridis et al (2020) detected trade communities in the GEWTNs and compared the trade communities with clustering countries by CO2 levels, language, geographical distances, regional trade agreements, and colonial ties. Theis (2020) studied the network formation mechanism for GEWTNs and discussed the impacts of ecologically unequal exchange, global political economy and world polity theory on GEWTN formation.…”

Section: Waste and Scrap Trade Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%