Abstract While significant focus has been placed on the environmental and health impacts of waste electrical electronic equipment (WEEE) treatment, a gap exists with respect to job creation in WEEE treatment. The employment opportunities, especially decent work, is an important factor growing green circular economies. This research investigates potential Irish pre-treatment sector by examining ...

Plastics follow a linear economic structure, leading to detrimental environmental effects, such as global warming and ecosystem destruction, through incineration accumulation throughout their life cycle. This study examined the types, potential generation amounts, properties of recycled plastics from waste electrical electronic equipment (WEEE) assess feasibility closed-loop recycling WEEE unde...

Government requirements for the management of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) by electronics manufacturers importers has raised some difficulties in structuring reverse chain WEEE Brazil, notably due to territorial extension country. The need implement circular economy practices (CE) been acknowledged as a key requirement sustaining international competitiveness Brazilian compa...

Abstract Waste electronic and electric equipment (WEEE) are collected in high amounts the EU. However, order to enable safe effective recycling of their plastic fraction, harmful additives inside plastics need be identified. In this study, two spectroscopic methods, laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) Raman were employed for characterizing different brominated flame retardants (BFRs) fr...

Today, over-consumption, pollution and resource depletion threaten sustainability. Waste management policies frequently fail to reduce consumption, prevent pollution, conserve resources and foster sustainable products. However, waste policies are changing to focus on lifecycle impacts of products from the cradle to the grave by extending the responsibilities of stakeholders to post-consumer man...

In this paper we show how it is possible to reuse optical supports (CDs, DVDs, etc.) without using chemical or physical transformation, only employing a software that can easily run on domestic computers. This software can make obsolete optical supports useful again, converting de facto WEEE (Waste electric and electronic equipment) into EEE (Electric and electronic equipment). A massive use of...