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Liu Xianbing
Tanaka, Masaru
Abstract
Serious adverse impacts on the environment and human health from the recycling and disposal of electronic waste have occurred in the past and continue to occur in China today, due to the lack of a national management strategy. With aiming to support the management strategy development, a study was carried out to plan and quantitatively evaluate the optional management frameworks for the selected five main types of large electronic home appliances in Beijing, the capital city and a typically big municipality in China. This paper outlined the main findings yielded from the series of assessment studies which started from the generation amount prediction and material flow analysis of the used electronic appliances, planning and optimization of the collection & transportation frameworks and ended at the economic evaluation of the optional recycling processes for the waste appliances. Although the revenue could be expected from the result of isolated evaluation of the recycling processes, the entire system will be economically unavailable if the used appliances are still collected from the owners at current prices. The traditional understanding of householders on the values of their used appliances should be changed in Beijing and China as a whole. Establishment of a formal collection system that could take back the used appliances at lower prices (less than 40% of the current level) is the key for the construction of a formal management framework with sustainability.
Keywords
Waste electronic home appliances
Management framework
Assessment
Beijing
China
Publication Title
岡山大学環境理工学部研究報告
Published Date
2007-03-15
Volume
volume12
Issue
issue1
Publisher
岡山大学環境理工学部
Publisher Alternative
Faculty of Environmental Science and Technology, Okayama University
Start Page
51
End Page
61
ISSN
1341-9099
NCID
AN10529213
Content Type
Departmental Bulletin Paper
OAI-PMH Set
岡山大学
language
English
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fest