Electronic-Waste: Management and Challenges
A special issue of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304). This special issue belongs to the section "Exposome Analysis and Risk Assessment".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 September 2021) | Viewed by 21338
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multi criteria decision making; inventory management; spare parts; additive manufacturing
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Electrical and electronic goods production is crucial to support the fourth industrial revolution. Nonetheless, each product becomes, at the end of its life cycle, waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) whose hazardous contents show severe environmental and health issues. As a result, their disposal phase has been extensively promoted by laws and regulations.
Environmental, economic, and social analysis are the three pillars of sustainability and guide us in evaluating the impacts of products and processes in an integrated fashion. From this perspective, WEEE management deserves our attention.
The aim of this Special Issue is to investigate the new challenges that the end-of-life of electrical and electronic goods pose, as well as the opportunities of a circular economy paradigm in that context.
The possible fields of interest of this Special Issue are, but not restricted to:
- Machine learning techniques;
- Life-cycle assessment (LCA);
- Multiple-criteria decision analysis (MCDA);
- Optimization methods;
- Product design guidelines;
applied to WEEE management or any lifecycle phases affecting the end-of-life of electrical and electronic goods.
Original articles, reviews, and communications are welcome.
Dr. Francesco LolliDr. Elia Balugani
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- WEEE
- Industry 4.0
- machine learning
- LCA
- MCDA
- design for disassembly
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