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Managing e-waste from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective: China’s challenges and fund policy redesign
E-waste is one of the fastest growing streams of solid waste globally, and its effective management has become a focused issue, which requires a deep understanding of the core guiding theory of extended producer responsibility (EPR). Over the past 20 years, China, one of the world’s largest producer...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9232477/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35182343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19227-6 |
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author | Tian, Tingting Liu, Guangfu Yasemi, Hussein Liu, Yang |
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description | E-waste is one of the fastest growing streams of solid waste globally, and its effective management has become a focused issue, which requires a deep understanding of the core guiding theory of extended producer responsibility (EPR). Over the past 20 years, China, one of the world’s largest producers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), has made great efforts to improve e-waste management along with the massive generation of e-waste. In 2012, China implemented a unique EPR-based e-waste fund policy. However, the fund policy is unsustainable due to the challenges of non-closed resource use, informal recycling, and fund imbalance. Beginning with an overview of these challenges, this paper focuses on redesigning the fund policy from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective in order to maintain a balanced development of the resource use loop and the fund system in China’s ten-year plan. In doing so, two EPR instruments, recycling content standards and consumer-oriented deposits, are added to the current fund policy. Subsequently, three extension scenarios alternately changed a critical parameter of the model to test the impact on sustainable capabilities. In this way, the sustainable supply of funds and secondary resources for the e-waste industry can be established in China and effectively demonstrate solid waste management in developing countries. |
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spelling | pubmed-92324772022-06-26 Managing e-waste from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective: China’s challenges and fund policy redesign Tian, Tingting Liu, Guangfu Yasemi, Hussein Liu, Yang Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Research Article E-waste is one of the fastest growing streams of solid waste globally, and its effective management has become a focused issue, which requires a deep understanding of the core guiding theory of extended producer responsibility (EPR). Over the past 20 years, China, one of the world’s largest producers of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE), has made great efforts to improve e-waste management along with the massive generation of e-waste. In 2012, China implemented a unique EPR-based e-waste fund policy. However, the fund policy is unsustainable due to the challenges of non-closed resource use, informal recycling, and fund imbalance. Beginning with an overview of these challenges, this paper focuses on redesigning the fund policy from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective in order to maintain a balanced development of the resource use loop and the fund system in China’s ten-year plan. In doing so, two EPR instruments, recycling content standards and consumer-oriented deposits, are added to the current fund policy. Subsequently, three extension scenarios alternately changed a critical parameter of the model to test the impact on sustainable capabilities. In this way, the sustainable supply of funds and secondary resources for the e-waste industry can be established in China and effectively demonstrate solid waste management in developing countries. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-02-19 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC9232477/ /pubmed/35182343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19227-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tian, Tingting Liu, Guangfu Yasemi, Hussein Liu, Yang Managing e-waste from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective: China’s challenges and fund policy redesign |
title | Managing e-waste from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective: China’s challenges and fund policy redesign |
title_full | Managing e-waste from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective: China’s challenges and fund policy redesign |
title_fullStr | Managing e-waste from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective: China’s challenges and fund policy redesign |
title_full_unstemmed | Managing e-waste from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective: China’s challenges and fund policy redesign |
title_short | Managing e-waste from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective: China’s challenges and fund policy redesign |
title_sort | managing e-waste from a closed-loop lifecycle perspective: china’s challenges and fund policy redesign |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9232477/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35182343 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-19227-6 |
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