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The future of e-waste; which category is going to be the major challenge for the EU.
Goolkate, Wander (2022) The future of e-waste; which category is going to be the major challenge for the EU.
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| Abstract: | E-waste or also called WEEE is discarded electrical and electronic equipment (EEE). Right now, the waste management of e-waste is not good enough, only 17.4% of the world’s total amount of e-waste is properly collected and recycled. This causes damage to the environment, to humans and makes that economic opportunities from the raw materials in e-waste are not used. Because e-waste is also one of the quickest growing waste streams, it is going to give big challenges to the EU. Given that the EU has been attempting for the past two decades to develop a circular economy, this paper researched which category of e-waste is going to be the major challenge for the EU. An Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model and an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model were created to predict the future amounts of e-waste per category. This combined with the existing knowledge of recyclability, profitability and how good recycling facilities follow the EU directives about e-waste per category of e-waste, shows that the category of small equipment e-waste will be the major challenge for the EU. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 43 environmental science, 85 business administration, organizational science |
| Programme: | International Business Administration BSc (50952) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/91239 |
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