Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has been one of the fastest growing waste streams worldwide. Effective and efficient management and treatment of WEEE has become a global problem. As one of the world's largest electronic products manufacturing and consumption countries, China plays a key role in the material life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment. Over the past 20 yea...

Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) is difficult to sustainably manage. One key issue is the challenge of planning for WEEE flows as current and future quantities of waste are difficult to predict. To address this, WEEE generation and gross domestic product (GDP) data from 50 countries of the pan-European region were assessed. A high economic elasticity was identified, indicating t...

The segregation of waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) in the generating source, its characterization (quali-quantitative) and identification of origin, besides being integral parts of classification reports, are crucial steps to the success of its integrated management. The aim of this paper was to count WEEE generation at the Federal University of Espírito Santo (UFES), Brazil...

Waste of electric and electronic equipment (WEEE) is the fastest-growing waste stream in Europe. The large amount of electric and electronic products introduced every year in the market makes WEEE disposal a relevant problem. On the other hand, the high abundance of key metals included in WEEE has increased the industrial interest in WEEE recycling. However, the high variability of materials us...

This project focuses on optimizing the location of WEEE collection points for waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) which consists of determining a set of locations to install a network of gathering equipment. It is implemented using open source technologies following the current tendency of the present software market situation. In particular, the software application to be develope...

With the contribution of the LIFE financial instrument of the European Community. We are grateful to the WEEE Forum and the European Community for having supported this project. A special thank goes to all those members of the WEEE Forum who provided laboratory samples. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the Swiss WEEE system operators SENS and SWICO, who initiated this project ...

Printed circuit boards (PCBs) can be found in any piece of electrical or electronic equipment: nearly all electronic items, including calculators and remote control units, contain large circuit boards; an increasing number of white goods, as washing machines contains circuit boards for example in electronic timers. PCBs contain metals, polymers, ceramics and are manufactured by sophisticated te...

high levels of weee and limited capacities for disposal and recycling, together with thenecessity to transpose the european legislation into national law have shaped the profile of weee system inromania. in order to improve the functionality of this system it is important to understand the citizens’behaviour towards weee recycling. recent research conducted in different countries suggest that v...

high levels of weee and limited capacities for disposal and recycling, together with thenecessity to transpose the european legislation into national law have shaped the profile of weee system inromania. in order to improve the functionality of this system it is important to understand the citizens’behaviour towards weee recycling. recent research conducted in different countries suggest that v...