Towards Holistic Governance of China’s E-Waste Recycling: Evolution of Networked Policies

Electronic products are being updated and replaced much faster and there is therefore an increasing growth in electronic waste (e-waste). In order to promote professional recycling of e-waste, the relevant government departments of China have published a series of policies. This paper aims to unearth the evolution tendency of the networked policies towards holistic governance of China’s e-waste recycling. Content analysis, quantitative text analysis and network analysis are applied to analyze relevant policy documents from 2001 to 2016. This paper illustrates evolution of policy themes, evolution of intergovernmental relationships, and evolution of policy relations. This study reveals policy intentions, maps policy progress, and unearths governance philosophy, providing an overall understanding of the policy ways by which the Chinese government has deployed its guiding strategies on professional recycling of e-waste. This paper illustrates how to approach holistic governance from perspective of networked policies, contributing to answering the central question of holistic governance about how to achieve it.

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Talkin’ bout Digitalization. A Comparative Analysis of National Discourses on the Digital Future of Work

10.31235/osf.io/6ex7t ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Matteo Marenco ◽

Timo Seidl

Keyword(s):

Text Analysis ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Policy Documents ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Qualitative Evidence ◽

Gig Economy ◽

New Knowledge ◽

Formal And Informal Institutions ◽

Quantitative Text Analysis ◽

New Forms Of Work

New forms of work intermediation - the gig economy - and the growing use of advanced digital technologies - the new knowledge economy - are changing the nature of work. The digitalization of work, however, is shaped by how countries respond to it. Following a discursive-institutionalist approach, we argue that to understand how countries respond to digitalization we need to understand how they perceive and conceive of it in the first place. Using various methods of quantitative text analysis on a novel corpus of translated newspaper and policy documents from eight European countries as well as qualitative evidence from interviews and secondary sources, we show that there are clear country effects in how digitalization is framed and fought over; that formal and informal institutions are crucial to understand these differences; but that actors can also use their discursive agency to defend or attack these institutions.

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E-waste endangers developing nations' catch-up growth

Emerald Expert Briefings ◽

10.1108/oxan-db242578 ◽

2019 ◽

Keyword(s):

Electronic Waste ◽

Precious Metals ◽

Cost Effective ◽

Waste Recycling ◽

Electronic Products ◽

Content Type ◽

3D Printers ◽

Catch Up ◽

Large Investment ◽

The Eu

Significance Nearly 50 million tonnes of electronic waste (e-waste) was generated last year but only 20% was recycled. China generates the most but the EU leads both e-waste per person and regulatory stringency. Surging trade from developed to developing countries offers the former cost-effective disposal of electronic products and the latter affordable access to these goods and their inputs. Impacts Apple admits that 77% of the carbon footprint of its products is from manufacturing, emphasising the key e-waste role producers will play. Additive manufacturing advances could revolutionise e-waste recycling processes; countries are already using e-waste to make 3D printers. China wants all new electronic goods to use 20% recycled content by 2025 but this may be optimistic; Singapore will struggle for its target. Firms developing technologies efficiently to extract minerals and precious metals from e-waste could attract large investment.

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RESCO (REUSABLE SUSTAINABLE COMMODITY)

International journal of multidisciplinary advanced scientific research and innovation ◽

10.53633/ijmasri.2021.1.10.009 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 1 (10) ◽

pp. 302-307

Author(s):

Yuvraj Singh ◽

Naman Budhiraja ◽

Nishant Agarwal ◽

Akanksha Kochhar

Keyword(s):

Electronic Waste ◽

Waste Recycling ◽

Technical Solution ◽

Formal Sector ◽

Electronic Products ◽

Technology Sector ◽

Long Time ◽

Development Goals ◽

Android Development ◽

Set Up

What do we do with our e-waste? The answers would possibly be „what is e-waste‟, „office IT vendor‟ and „collection boxes‟ to „we just dump it in the dustbin‟ or „put it in our cupboards for a long long time.‟ It is like that disposing of e-waste effectively (or at all) is not a priority because, we think, it doesn‟t really get in our way.E-waste recycling is a concept barely existent in India. As a result, the electronic waste generated is often dumped in rivers or in dump yards without proper treatment. This is hazardous for both the environment and personal health. Electronic waste (e-waste) is one of fast-growing trash streams in the country. Knowledge Growth and The Telecommunications Technology sector has improved electronic use equipment exponentially. Soon expiration and subsequent upgrades of electronic products, are compelling consumers discard old products, which then accumulate large e-waste in a solid stream of waste. E-waste is growing in India at a rate of 10%. Major recycling of e-waste is carried out in the non-formal sector using primitive and hazardous methods. . Adequate legal action and inexpensive, friendly to nature, A technical solution will be needed to fix the issue.With increasing production of electronic devices, the carbon emission is also increasing drastically. Even processes like recycling have a high usage of resources like water and electricity which are also (though in lesser quantities) degrading the environment. The UN has set up Sustainable Development Goals which set up certain goals that we need to match up in future.Seeing that a large amount of carbon emissions come from development of electronics, we decided to build a project that can help people to REUSE old electronic products. Keywords: Reusability, Recycling, Android Development, Donation, NGOs

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Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in PM2.5 associated with various source sectors in southern China

Environmental Science Processes & Impacts ◽

10.1039/d0em00443j ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

qiqi li ◽

Tao Wang ◽

yuan zeng ◽

yun fan ◽

Shejun Chen ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Flame Retardants ◽

Southern China ◽

Electronic Waste ◽

Brominated Flame Retardants ◽

Waste Recycling ◽

Recycling Facilities

The present study investigated legacy and novel brominated flame retardants (BFRs) in atmospheric PM2.5 associated with various urban source sectors in a city and electronic waste (e-waste) recycling facilities in...

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Passive Air Sampling of PCDD/Fs, PCBs, PAEs, DEHA, and PAHs from Informal Electronic Waste Recycling and Allied Sectors in Indian Megacities

Environmental Science & Technology ◽

10.1021/acs.est.1c01460 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Paromita Chakraborty ◽

Harish Gadhavi ◽

Balasubramanian Prithiviraj ◽

Moitraiyee Mukhopadhyay ◽

Sanjenbam Nirmala Khuman ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Electronic Waste ◽

Air Sampling ◽

Waste Recycling ◽

Passive Air Sampling ◽

Electronic Waste Recycling

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The Inclusion of Rights of People with Disabilities and Women and Girls in Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Policy Documents and Programs of Bangladesh and Cambodia: Content Analysis Using EquiFrame

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18105087 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (10) ◽

pp. 5087

Author(s):

Nathaniel Scherer ◽

Islay Mactaggart ◽

Chelsea Huggett ◽

Pharozin Pheng ◽

Mahfuj-ur Rahman ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Content Analysis ◽

People With Disabilities ◽

Analysis Tool ◽

Middle Income ◽

Policy Documents ◽

Sanitation And Hygiene ◽

Gender Inclusion ◽

Core Concepts ◽

Women And Girls ◽

And Gender

People with disabilities and as women and girls face barriers to accessing water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services and facilities that fully meet their needs, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Women and girls with disabilities experience double discrimination. WASH policies should support and uphold the concepts of disability and gender inclusion, and they should also act as a guide to inform WASH programs and service delivery. Using a modified version of the EquiFrame content analysis tool, this study investigated the inclusion of 21 core concepts of human rights of people with disabilities and women and girls in 16 WASH policy documents and seven end-line program reports from Bangladesh and Cambodia. Included documents typically focused on issues of accessibility and neglected wider issues, including empowerment and support for caregivers. The rights of children and women with disabilities were scarcely focused on specifically, despite their individual needs, and there was a disconnect in the translation of certain rights from policy to practice. Qualitative research is needed with stakeholders in Bangladesh and Cambodia to investigate the inclusion and omission of core rights of people with disabilities, and women and girls, as well as the factors contributing to the translation of rights from policy to practice.

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