Design of a recovery network in Portugal: the electric and electronic equipment case

Author

Salema, Maria Isabel G ; Barbosa-Povoa, Ana P. ; Novais, Augusto Q.

Author_Institution

Fac. de Cienc. e Tecnol., UNL, Lisbon

fYear

2008

fDate

28-30 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

An European directive established that all EU countries must have, until the end of 2006, a recovery network for the electric and electronic equipment waste (WEEE). In Portugal, a group of producers formed a non-profit organization to design and manage this waste flow. In this work, a model developed previously by the authors to design and plan a generic WEEE network is presented and applied to the Portuguese case. The results obtained are discussed and compared with the network that is currently operating.

Keywords

electrical products industry; electronic products; electronics industry; recycling; waste recovery; EU countries; Portugal; electric equipment waste; electronic equipment waste; non-profit organization; waste manage; waste recovery network; Companies; Costs; Electronic equipment; Electronic waste; Europe; Home appliances; Legislation; Recycling; Sorting; Waste management; Recovery network; electric and electronic equipment; facility location; optimization model;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering Management Conference, 2008. IEMC Europe 2008. IEEE International

Conference_Location

Estoril

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2288-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2289-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMCE.2008.4618017

Filename

4618017