Höltl, Andrea, Brandtweiner, Roman, Müller, Roman. 2017. Approach to solving the e-waste problem - case study Ghana. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 12 (6), 1050-1060.
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Abstract
The market for electrical devices still continues to increase all over the world and as a consequence the quantity of waste in the category of electronics rises. A huge proportion of the electronic waste is exported from the industrial countries to developing countries, in order to save costs, and also because of too few recycling plants in industrial countries. The significant environmental and social problem in this context is that the electronic devices are mostly recycled in informal plants. Thereby the burden for the people as well as the environment increases because e-waste includes a lot of toxic substances. The negative impacts are already obvious in countries of importation. This paper will illustrate this on the basis of the case study in Ghana in Africa. The problem is evident, and research, business as well as governments aim to counter this development. The paper will investigate the current approaches employed for solving the e-waste problem with respect to legal options and also regarding voluntary agreements and the provision of information about the actual situation to the consumers
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Status of publication | Published |
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Affiliation | WU |
Type of publication | Journal article |
Journal | International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning |
Language | English |
Title | Approach to solving the e-waste problem - case study Ghana |
Volume | 12 |
Number | 6 |
Year | 2017 |
Page from | 1050 |
Page to | 1060 |
Reviewed? | Y |
DOI | na |
Associations
- People
- Brandtweiner, Roman (Details)
- External
- Höltl, Andrea (Donau Universität Krems, Austria)
- Müller, Roman (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria)
- Organization
- Institute for Information Management and Control IN (Details)
- Research areas (ÖSTAT Classification 'Statistik Austria')
- 5307 Business and management economics (Details)
- 5366 Information society (Details)
- 5917 Communication science (Details)
- 5918 Media research, -studies (Details)
- 6123 Business ethics (Details)