NDLI: The economics of cell phone reuse and recycling

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Geyer, Roland Doctori Blass, Vered
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	There is widespread consensus that landfill of waste electronic and electric equipment is not an acceptable end-of-use management option. Diversion from landfill, either through voluntary or mandatory take-back and collection programs, overwhelmingly leads to the recycling of e-waste, which typically consists of the recovery of a limited number of metals. Cell phones are currently one of the few electronic products, if not the only one, that also have a thriving reuse market. In fact, more handsets are reused than recycled. Cell phones therefore offer the rare opportunity to compare closed-loop supply chains for e-waste reuse and recycling. In this paper, we examine the economics of cell phone reuse and recycling based on detailed primary data collected from reverse logistics, reuse and recycling operations in 2003 in the UK and in 2006 in the US. We show that while cell phone reuse has a healthy profit margin, handset recycling is currently a by-product of reuse.
Starting Page	515
Ending Page	525
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	02683768
Journal	The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology
Volume Number	47
Issue Number	5-8
e-ISSN	14333015
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2009-09-04
Publisher Place	London
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	WEEE Cell phones Reuse Recycling Production economics Closed-loop supply chains Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design Mechanical Engineering Production/Logistics Industrial and Production Engineering
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Control and Systems Engineering Mechanical Engineering Computer Science Applications Software

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