WEEE Recycling: Research, Development, and Policies

WEEE Recycling: Research, Development, and Policies covers policies, research, development, and challenges in recycling of waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). The book introduces WEEE management and then covers the environmental, economic, and societal applications of e-waste recycling, focusing on the technical challenges to designing efficient and sustainable recycling processes—including physical separation, pyrometallurgical, and hydrometallurgical processes. The development of processes for recovering strategic and critical metals from urban mining is a priority for many countries, especially those having few available ores mining.

Describes the two metallurgical processes—hydro- and pyro-metallurgy—and their application in recycling of metalsProvides a life cycle analysis in the WEEE recycling of metalsOutlines how to determine economic parameters in the recycling of waste metalsDiscusses the socio economic and environmental implication of metal recycling

Introduction

Alexandre Chagnes, Gerard Cote, Christian Ekberg, M. Nilson and Teodora Valeria Retegan

1. Waste electrical and electronic equipment take-back schemes

Richard Toffolet

2. Dynamic representation of the stocks and fluxes of metals in the economy

Dominique Alain Guyonnet

3. Physical separation processes in WEEE recyclinghe recovery of metals from WEEE

Nour-Eddine Menad

4. Electrostatic Separation of Metals and Plastics from WEEE

Lucian Dascalescu

5. Pyrometallurgical processes for the recovery of metals from WEEE

Burçak Ebin and Mehmet Ikbal Isik

6. Hydrometallurgical processes for the recovery of metals from WEEE

Teodora Valeria Retegan and Cristian Tunsu

7. Lifecycle analyses in WEEE recycling

Gonzalo Rodriguez Garcia and Marcel Weil

Conclusion

Alexandre Chagnes, Gerard Cote, Christian Ekberg, M. Nilson and Teodora Valeria Retegan