E-Waste Management and Assessment in Macau

ISBN-13: 9783659290091 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 176 str.

Song Qingbin;Wang Zhishi;Li Jinhui

Opis

E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world and Macau, the special administrative region of China, is no exception. E-waste is a crisis not only of quantity but also of toxic components, such as PBDEs, PCBs,PCDD/Fs, and heavy metals. Due to lack of the related laws and treatment facilities, Macau is currently faced with an urgent need to find methods of dealing with e-waste issue. With the help of Questionnaire survey, LCA, and Emergy analysis, this book investiaged the residents behaviors, attitudes,and willingness to pay for recycling e-waste, evaluate the environmental performance of the current system,implement the feasible recycling technology into the trial project for e-waste, and finally assess the sustainability of the e-waste treatment in Macau. The relevant results could provide decision support to enterprise managers and government sectors, and help them improve the management and treatment of e-waste.

O autorze

Qingbin Song was born in Baoding(China) on Sep.30, 1982. He studied the Environmental Engineering at the Hebei University of Science and Technology, took his Ph.D degree at University of Macau in 2013. His interest focuses on environmental assessment of e-waste with LCA and Emergy analysis.