Characterizing architectural options for electronic waste recycling systems

Several electronic waste recycling systems now exist worldwide in many different forms. In order to determine the optimal system structure for a location, a methodology for comparison must be established. This poster outlines a framework developed to compare the environmental and economic performance of recycling systems through analysis of both context and system architecture options. An overview of the available architectural options for designing an e-waste system is presented, and then the comparison framework is applied to an analysis of systems operating in both European countries and US states. The analysis presented here focuses on the quantity of e-waste collected by each system.