Description
Book SynopsisThis 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
Table of Contents
1. Economic Instruments for Electronic Waste Management in India. 2. The EU e-waste policy and regulation. 3. Comparison Analysis of E-waste Management in India and Japan: Challenges and Solutions with Focus on COVID-19 Pandemic. 4. Fungal Biotechnology for Recovery of Critical Metals from E-waste: Current Research Trends and Prospects. 5. Nanotechnology as a cleaner and greener approach towards E-Waste Recycling and Valorization. 6. Health and Environmental Effects of E-waste Recycling Processes: Issues, challenges and solutions. 7. Role of Media in E-Waste Awareness Generation: An Indian Scenario. 8. Economic Potential of Resource Recovery from E-waste. 9. A Review of Security Threats from E-waste: Issues, Challenges, and Sustainability. 10. Electronic Component Recycling: Solutions Towards Green Development. 11. Approaches to Improving the Circular Economy Paradigm in E-waste Management in India through Informal-Formal Sector Integration. 12. Consumer behaviors in the circular economy with special focus on e-products. 13. Towards Circular Economy via Sorbent prepared from E-waste: A Chemical Engineering perspective.
