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Business plan calculation tool for manual dismantling facilities

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), or e-waste, is the fastest growing waste stream and can cause harm to human health and the environment when not treated properly. Especially in developing countries e-waste is often treated under critical h ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

The Zero Waste approach to resource management

A Zero Waste system is a resource management system. The process of wasting resources is against nature. In a zero waste system everything has a place before, during and after use. There is no away. In the best-designed system, the dismantling or demanufac ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Creating a competing demand for waste resources: a strategy for waste minimization in Nigeria

Solid waste management in Nigeria is a social and public health concern. Waste problems are more serious in cities as the communities lead a non-indigenous lifestyle with respect to resource consumption and wastage. Nigerian municipal waste has organic bio ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

ENTREPRENEURIAL SUPPORT FOR E-WASTE RECYCLERS

Sustainable recycling of e-waste bares opportunities as well as obstacles - mainly for small and medium size enterprises. Especially the current challenging market situation for second- hand raw materials makes it difficult for small e-waste recyclers to o ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Applying value chain analysis to informal sector recycling: A case study of the Zabaleen

Rémi Jaligot

A methodology has been developed to apply value chain analysis (VCA) to the informal recycling sector, and demonstrated using the Zabaleen in Cairo, Egypt as a case study. The VCA methodology provides a ⿿toolkit⿿ comprising four stages. The first involves ...

Elsevier2016

Resources efficient product provision - Closing the resources loop for waste mobile phones and smartphones

Scarcity of natural resources and supply chain risks represent one of today's most vital topics. This issue very much applies to the electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) sector, as its production requires a mixture of various different kinds of raw ma ...

Villigen PSI, World Resources Forum, printed by Paul Scherrer Institute2015

The waste collection VRP with intermediate facilities, a heterogeneous fixed fleet and a flexible assignment of origin and destination depot

Michel Bierlaire, Sacha Varone, Iliya Dimitrov Markov

We consider a complex recyclable waste collection problem that extends the class of vehicle routing problems with intermediate facilities by integrating a heterogeneous fixed fleet and a flexible assignment of origin and destination depot. Several addition ...

2015

Decisions on recycling: Construction stakeholders’ decisions regarding recycled mineral construction materials

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Construction and demolition (C&D) waste, being already the largest waste fraction in industrialized coun- tries, is expected to increase in the future. C&D waste recycling has been considered to be a valuable option not only for minimizing C&D waste stream ...

Elsevier2011

Smart Labels for Waste and Resource Management

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

This ar ticle explores the potential of RFID (radio frequency identification device) for improving the current waste and resource management system in Switzerland. It presents the following three possible options for utilizing RFID tags to suppor t waste m ...

2008

Waste-resource flows of short-lived goods in households of Santiago de Cuba

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

In this paper, we apply the method of material flow analysis to analyze the consumption and waste mass flows of short-lived goods and we provide first insights into the waste management behavior of households in Santiago de Cuba. The goods analyzed are gla ...

2007