ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|67 pages
Policies and Case Studies for Sustainable E-waste Management
chapter 3|27 pages
Comparison Analysis of E-waste Management in India and Japan
part II|35 pages
Technological Advancement towards Sustainable E-waste Management
chapter 4|16 pages
Fungal Biotechnology for the Recovery of Critical Metals from E-waste
part III|58 pages
Sustainability Aspects of E-waste Management
chapter 6|19 pages
Health and Environmental Effects of E-waste Recycling Processes
chapter 7|18 pages
Role of Media in E-waste Awareness Generation toward Social Sustainability
part IV|43 pages
Critical Aspects of Sustainable E-waste Management
part V|48 pages
Toward Sustainable Circular Economy in E-waste Sector