Last modified: 2014-09-11
Abstract
Presenting the major players dealing with WEEE end of life treatments and following their processes from the collection to recovered materials, major weaknesses of regulations and plant engineering are outlined and analyzed.
Loss during collection, theft (so called “cannibalization”), unjustified complexity of recovery targets evaluation, poor choices of waste management systems, illegal exports, give to the Italian WEEE system large areas of improvement.
The recoverable materials (rare earth elements, precious metals) make the WEEE supply chain very interesting both economically and strategically. In this paper, we propose economic forecasts and engineering solutions to improve the Italian WEEE system.
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