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Significance of Electronic Waste Management for Sustainable Industrial Production

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Operations Management and Systems Engineering

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We review the type of toxic substances that exist in e-waste, their impact on environment, health of human beings, and management approaches that are being used to manage e-waste in some developed countries. Several tools like Material Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA), and Flow Analysis (MFA) are being used for the management of e-waste in developed countries. Multiple tools working together coherently are required to resolve the e-waste problem.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, Bombay, Mumbai, India

    Rishabh Kumar Saran

  2. Department of Chemical Engineering, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Punjab, India

    Shashikant Yadav

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    Pradeep Kumar

  3. North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA

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Saran, R.K., Yadav, S. (2019). Significance of Electronic Waste Management for Sustainable Industrial Production. In: Sachdeva, A., Kumar, P., Yadav, O. (eds) Operations Management and Systems Engineering. Lecture Notes on Multidisciplinary Industrial Engineering. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6476-1_13

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