Development in E-waste Management: Sustainability and Circular Economy Aspects

Description

This book concerns the developments in the field of e-waste management with a particular focus on urban mining, sustainability, and circular economy aspects. It explains e-waste recycling technologies, supply chain aspects, and e-waste disposal in IT industries, including health and environmental effects of e-waste recycling processes, and associated issues, challenges, and solutions. Further, it describes the economic potential of resource recovery from e-waste. Features Covers recent developments in e-waste management. Explores technological advances, such as nanotech from e-waste, MREW, fungal biotech, and so forth. Reviews electronic component recycling aspects. Discusses the implementation of circular economy in the e-waste sector. Includes urban mining and sustainability aspects of e-waste. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in environmental engineering, waste management, urban mining, circular economy, waste processing, electronics, and telecommunication engineering, electrical and electronics engineering, and chemical engineering. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents About the Editors List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgments Part I Policies and Case Studies for Sustainable E-waste Management: Features Policies and Case Studies Adopted in Different Countries for Sustainable E-waste Management Chapter 1 Economic Instruments for Electronic Waste Management in India Chapter 2 The EU E-waste Policy and Regulation Chapter 3 Comparison Analysis of E-waste Management in India and Japan: Challenges and Solutions with a Focus on the COVID-19 Pandemic Part II Technological Advancement towards Sustainable E-waste Management: Features Progression in the Technological Aspect of E-waste Management towards Sustainability Chapter 4 Fungal Biotechnology for the Recovery of Critical Metals from E-waste: Current Research Trends and Prospects Chapter 5 Nanotechnology as a Cleaner and Greener Approach toward E-waste Recycling and Valorization Part III Sustainability Aspects of E-waste Management: Features Three Pillars of Sustainability, i.e., Environment, Economic, and Social with Respect to E-waste Management Chapter 6 Health and Environmental Effects of E-waste Recycling Processes: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions Chapter 7 Role of Media in E-waste Awareness Generation toward Social Sustainability: An Indian Scenario Chapter 8 Economic Potential of Resource Recovery from E-waste Part IV Critical Aspects of Sustainable E-waste Management: Focuses on Relatively Unexplored but Critical Area of E-waste Management Chapter 9 A Review of Security Threats from E-waste: Issues, Challenges, and Sustainability Chapter 10 Electronic Component Recycling: Solutions toward Green Development Part V Toward Sustainable Circular Economy in E-waste Sector: Features Approaches that Dictate Sustainable Circular Economy in the E-waste Sector Chapter 11 Approaches to Improving the Circular Economy Paradigm in E-waste Management in India through Informal–Formal Sector Integration Chapter 12 Consumer Behaviors in the Circular Economy with Special Focus on E-products Chapter 13 Towards Circular Economy via Sorbent Prepared from E-waste: A Chemical Engineering Perspective Index