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Japan, the European Union, and Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Recycling: Key Lessons Learned

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Title: Japan, the European Union, and Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment Recycling: Key Lessons Learned
Authors: Yoshida, Fumikazu1 Browse this author
Yoshida, Haruyo2 Browse this author
Authors(alt): 吉田, 文和1
吉田, 晴代2
Keywords: WEEE
collection
treatmentl
generation
recycling
Issue Date: Jan-2010
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert
Journal Title: Environmental Engineering Science
Volume: 27
Issue: 1
Start Page: 21
End Page: 28
Publisher DOI: 10.1089/ees.2009.0109
Abstract: This article considers how Japan and the EU manage the recycling of consumer appliances and PCs/cellular phones through a review of their current collection and treatment systems for WEEE (waste electronic and electrical equipment), and on the basis of its findings offers recommendations for the improvement of these systems. We hope thereby to provide information that will be helpful for the better management of WEEE in developed countries as well as in our own. On the basis of our findings, we make the following recommendations: (1) that if Japan hopes to increase its collection rate of WEEE, it has to change its system from one where payment is made at the time of disposal to one where payment is made in advance, whereas the EU has to offer both users and recyclers greater incentives to collect more WEEE; (2) that, within the Japanese system, we have to reduce the cost without reducing the quality of recycling, which, because consumers pay at the time of disposal, is too expensive, whereas the EU must restore the former quality of its recycling, which has been allowed to deteriorate because of the pressure to reduce costs; and (3) that Japan and the EU need to set up a common fund that will enable them to cooperate in the collection and treatment of WEEE to oversee the problems occasioned by the practice of cross-border recycling.
Rights: This is a copy of an article published in the Environmental Engineering Science ©2010 copyright Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.; Environmental Engineering Science is available online at: http://www.liebertonline.com.
Type: article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/50812
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