Table Of ContentDevelopment in E-waste
Management
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.
Development in E-waste
Management
Sustainability and Circular
Economy Aspects
Edited by
Biswajit Debnath, Abhijit Das,
Potluri Anil Chowdary, and Siddhartha Bhattacharyya
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Biswajit would like to dedicate this book to Prof. Amar Chandra
Das (Bodda) and Late Dr. Sudhangsu Ranjan Dutta.
Abhijit would like to dedicate this book to his beloved wife Amrita.
Anil would like to dedicate this book to Dr. Divis Murali.
Siddhartha would like to dedicate this
volume to his beloved wife Rashni.
Contents
About the Editors ......................................................................................................xi
List of Contributors ..................................................................................................xv
Preface....................................................................................................................xvii
Acknowledgments ...................................................................................................xix
PART I Policies and Case Studies for
Sustainable E-waste Management:
Features Policies and Case Studies
Adopted in Different Countries for
Sustainable E-waste Management
Chapter 1 Economic Instruments for Electronic Waste Management in India ....3
Harveen Kaur and Jeremy Lin
Chapter 2 The EU E-waste Policy and Regulation ..............................................19
Lorenzo Sasso
Chapter 3 Comparison Analysis of E-waste Management in India and Japan:
Challenges and Solutions with a Focus on the COVID-19 Pandemic ...41
Satoka Shimizu
PART II Technological Advancement
towards Sustainable E-waste
Management: Features Progression in
the Technological Aspect of E-waste
Management towards Sustainability
Chapter 4 Fungal Biotechnology for the Recovery of Critical Metals from
E-waste: Current Research Trends and Prospects ...............................71
Amber Trivedi, Kavita Kanaujia, Kumar Upvan and Subrata Hait
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Chapter 5 Nanotechnology as a Cleaner and Greener Approach toward
E-waste Recycling and Valorization ..................................................87
Tirthankar Mukherjee, Shweta Mitra, Sunil Herat and
Prasad Kaparaju
PART III Sustainability Aspects of E-waste
Management: Features Three Pillars
of Sustainability, i.e., Environment,
Economic, and Social with
Respect to E-waste Management
Chapter 6 Health and Environmental Effects of E-waste Recycling
Processes: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions ....................................107
Anisha Modak and Pousali Bhattacharjyya
Chapter 7 Role of Media in E-waste Awareness Generation toward Social
Sustainability: An Indian Scenario ...................................................127
Chayan Acharya
Chapter 8 Economic Potential of Resource Recovery from E-waste ................145
Rohit Panchal, Hema Diwan and Anju Singh
PART IV Critical Aspects of Sustainable
E-waste Management: Focuses on
Relatively Unexplored but Critical
Area of E-waste Management
Chapter 9 A Review of Security Threats from E-waste: Issues, Challenges,
and Sustainability ..............................................................................165
Sanchari Das, A.K.M. Salman Hosain and Biswajit Debnath
Chapter 10 Electronic Component Recycling: Solutions toward Green
Development ......................................................................................189
Indrashis Saha, Rayan Kundu and Saswati Gharami
Contents ix
PART V Toward Sustainable Circular Economy
in E-waste Sector: Features Approaches
that Dictate Sustainable Circular
Economy in the E-waste Sector
Chapter 11 Approaches to Improving the Circular Economy Paradigm in
E-waste Management in India through Informal–Formal Sector
Integration ........................................................................................209
Gautam Mehra, Rachna Arora, Reva Prakash and
Abhijit Banerjee
Chapter 12 Consumer Behaviors in the Circular Economy with Special
Focus on E-products .........................................................................223
Tetiana Shevchenko and Yuriy Danko
Chapter 13 Towards Circular Economy via Sorbent Prepared from E-waste:
A Chemical Engineering Perspective ..............................................243
Suparna Bhattacharyya and Tathagata Mukherjee
Index .......................................................................................................................255
