The Economics of Electronics Recycling: New Approaches to Extended Producer Responsibility

Due to its considerable growth in modern societies, electronic waste has gained lots of attention from policy-makers and environmental NGOs across the globe. The introduction of extended producer responsibility in some countries is followed by a vigorous debate on how to most effectively and efficiently build electronics recycling systems. This book provides a detailed insight into the non-transparent electronics recycling industry. An analysis of the drawbacks and shortcomings of different regulatory EPR approaches is embedded in a comprehensive portrait of material flows and economic structures governing electronics recycling. The book is written to appeal to a wide group of addressees, among them industry decision-makers, policy makers and legislators, lobbying groups and NGOs, electronics manufacturers and importers, and the academic community.