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Electronic Waste and Its Regulation

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Design for environment (DfE):

The various design approaches geared at reducing the overall environmental impact of a product, process, or service, considering environmental impacts across the product’s life cycle.

Ecycling:

The process of recycling the components in used or discarded electronic equipment.

Electronic waste, e-waste, and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE):

Old, end-of-life, or discarded appliances using electricity and includes computers, consumer electronics, fridges, etc., which have been disposed of by their original users.

Extended producer responsibility (EPR):

Entails making manufacturers responsible for the entire life cycle of the products and packaging they produce based on the “polluter pays principle.”

Persistent and bioaccumulative toxins (PBT):

Compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation. Toxins that do not break down quickly persist in the environment, bioaccumulate in human and animal tissue, with potentially...

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  1. Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    S. Thompson

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  2. Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, NY, USA

    Nickolas J. Themelis

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Thompson, S. (2018). Electronic Waste and Its Regulation. In: Meyers, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2493-6_123-3

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