The increased diversity and complexity of plastics used in modern devices, such as electrical electronic equipment (EEE), can have negative impacts on their recyclability. Today, the main economic driver for waste (WEEE) recycling stems from metal recovery. WEEE recycling, other hand, still represents a major challenge. Strategies like design ‘for’, but also much younger concept ‘from’ play key...

Background, Aims and Scope. The interest in recycling materials at the end of their life is growing in the industry in general. As regards the Wastes of Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), an appreciable increase of these materials has been noticed in the last decades, 117 . 103 tons of WEEE have been produced in Italy in 2002 according to Ecohitech [1] and the increase in this kind of ...

The waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) stream in Thailand shifted from exporting WEEE to recycling them domestic enterprises after China's import restrictions on e-waste 2018. This study aims investigate the pollution status, sources, ecological risk of heavy metals manual dismantling facilities (12 repair shops 8 junk shops) Nakhon Si Thammarat province southern by examining conc...