Glossary
- Design for environment (DfE):
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The various design approaches geared at reducing the overall environmental impact of a product, process, or service, considering environmental impacts across the product’s life cycle.
- Ecycling:
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The process of recycling the components in used or discarded electronic equipment.
- Electronic waste, e-waste, and waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE):
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Old, end-of-life, or discarded appliances using electricity and includes computers, consumer electronics, fridges, etc., which have been disposed of by their original users.
- Extended producer responsibility (EPR):
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Entails making manufacturers responsible for the entire life cycle of the products and packaging they produce based on the “polluter pays principle.”
- Persistent and bioaccumulative toxins (PBT):
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Compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation. Toxins that do not break down quickly persist in the environment, bioaccumulate in human and animal tissue, with potentially...
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Thompson, S. (2019). Electronic Waste and Its Regulation. In: Themelis, N., Bourtsalas, A. (eds) Recovery of Materials and Energy from Urban Wastes. Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7850-2_123
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