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标题：Towards a Smart E-Waste System Utilizing Supply Chain Participants and Interactive Online Maps
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作者：Tetiana Shevchenko
期刊名称：Recycling
电子版ISSN：2313-4321
出版年度：2021
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：8
DOI：10.3390/recycling6010008
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：Efficient electronic waste (e-waste) management is one of the vital strategies to save materials, including critical minerals and precious metals with limited global reserves. The e-waste collection issue has gained increasing attention in recent years, especially in developing countries, due to low collection rates. This study aims to search for progressive solutions in the e-waste collection sphere with close-to-zero transport and infrastructure costs and the minimization of consumers’ efforts towards an enhanced e-waste management efficiency and collection rate. Along these lines, the present paper develops a smart reverse system of e-waste from end-of-life electronics holders to local recycling infrastructures based on intelligent information technology (IT) tools involving local delivery services to collect e-waste and connecting with interactive online maps of users’ requests. This system considers the vehicles of local delivery services as potential mobile collection points that collect and deliver e-waste to a local recycling enterprise with a minimum deviation from the planned routes. Besides e-waste transport and infrastructure costs minimization, the proposed smart e-waste reverse system supports the reduction of CO2 through the optimal deployment of e-waste collection vehicles. The present study also advances a solid rationale for involving local e-waste operators as key stakeholders of the smart e-waste reverse system. Deploying the business model canvas (BMC) toolkit, a business model of the developed system has been built for the case of Sumy city, Ukraine, and discussed in light of recent studies.
关键词：waste management; circular economy; end-of-life electronics equipment; smart e-waste collection; reverse logistics; route optimization; recycling behavior waste management ; circular economy ; end-of-life electronics equipment ; smart e-waste collection ; reverse logistics ; route optimization ; recycling behavior