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

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.