Application of Life Cycle Assessment on Electronic Waste Management: A Review.
Electronic waste is a rich source of both valuable materials and toxic substances. Management of electronic waste is one of the biggest challenges of current worldwide concern. As an effective and prevailing environmental management tool, life cycle assessment can evaluate the environmental performa...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 59; no. 4; pp. 693 - 708 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2017
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=121610729&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 121610729 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 0364152X O5H jtl: Environmental Management issn: 0364152X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Apr2017 vid: 59 iid: 4 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 121610729 144102043 10.1007/s00267-016-0812-1 121610729 ppf: 693 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Application of Life Cycle Assessment on Electronic Waste Management: A Review. aug: au: Xue, Mianqiang Xu, Zhenming affil: School of Environmental Science and Engineering , Shanghai Jiao Tong University , 800 Dongchuan Road Shanghai 200240 People's Republic of China sug: ab: Electronic waste is a rich source of both valuable materials and toxic substances. Management of electronic waste is one of the biggest challenges of current worldwide concern. As an effective and prevailing environmental management tool, life cycle assessment can evaluate the environmental performance of electronic waste management activities. Quite a few scientific literatures reporting life cycle assessment of electronic waste management with significant outcomes have been recently published. This paper reviewed the trends, characteristics, research gaps, and challenges of these studies providing detailed information for practitioners involved in electronic waste management. The results showed that life cycle assessment studies were most carried out in Europe, followed by Asia and North America. The research subject of the studies mainly includes monitors, waste printed circuit boards, mobile phones, computers, printers, batteries, toys, dishwashers, and light-emitting diodes. CML was the most widely used life cycle impact assessment method in life cycle assessment studies on electronic waste management, followed by EI99. Furthermore, 40% of the reviewed studies combined with other environmental tools, including life cycle cost, material flow analysis, multi-criteria decision analysis, emergy analysis, and hazard assessment which came to more comprehensive conclusions from different aspects. The research gaps and challenges including uneven distribution of life cycle assessment studies, life cycle impact assessment methods selection, comparison of the results, and uncertainty of the life cycle assessment studies were examined. Although life cycle assessment of electronic waste management facing challenges, their results will play more and more important role in electronic waste management practices. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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