scholarly journals Factors Affecting Mobile Waste Recycling through RSCM: A Literature Review

Recycling ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Taher Ben Yahya ◽  
Noriza Mohd Jamal ◽  
Balan Sundarakani ◽  
Siti Zaleha Omain
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Reverse Supply Chain ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Waste Management Practices

Mobile phone consumers have been motivated by the rapid growth of technology and encouraged to update their devices regularly to keep up with new innovations, architectures, and capabilities. Consequently, mobile/cell phone waste has risen significantly in the last decade. Due to their small size, it is convenient for users to keep outdated or unused mobile phones at home or the office, rather than recycling them appropriately. A reverse supply chain (RSC) is one possible method of mitigating the questionable e-waste activity present in the ecosystem. RSC has been significant for the mobile phone industry, user states, analysts, and scholars. This paper reviews the available literature in the RSC management (RSCM) domain, along with its processes and strategies. The paper reviews 223 published scholarly papers in the domain of mobile phone waste recycling and investigates 22 papers related to factors influencing consumers’ intention with regard to electronic recycling, focusing on mobile devices, which contribute significantly to electronic waste management practices.

Factors Influencing Household Electronic Waste Recycling Intention

2012 ◽  
Vol 622-623 ◽  
pp. 1686-1690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sew Tiep Ho ◽  
David Yoon Kin Tong ◽  
Elsadig Musa Ahmed ◽  
Chee Teck Lee
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Electronic Waste ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Waste Management Practices ◽  
Electronic Waste Recycling ◽  
Insight Into

In Malaysia, it is prevalent among many householders on accumulation of end-of-life electronics items at home and many are unclear of its disposal directive, which are likely to be disposed as household wastes. An insight into understanding their e-waste management practices and key predictors in relation to e-waste recycling intention are essential as they will lay the foundation for future effective e-waste management. This paper reports a preliminary exploration of the construct of e-waste recycling intention among householders. The data was collected from 150 respondents in Malacca, Malaysia. The results from this study showed that all the six dimensions generated are reliable with high intercorrelation among the dimensions. This implies that the measures can be used for further data collection to validate the study.

Determinants of University Students' Waste Mobile Phones Recycling Intention

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-84
Author(s):  
Ho Sew Tiep ◽  
Goh Mei Ling ◽  
Radziah Shaikh Abdullah ◽  
Teo Kim Mui
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Efficient System ◽  
The Past ◽  
Tremendous Amount ◽  
Waste Management Practices ◽  
Insight Into

As the world becomes increasingly interconnected, mobile phones has become the utmost preference device for most Malaysian to stay connected. Over the past decades, mobile phone users in this country has been increasing steadily. Percentage of individuals in Malaysia using mobile phones increased from 94.2% in 2013 to 97.5% in 2015 (DOS, 2016). According to the hand phone users survey carried out by MCMC (2017) , there were 42.3 million mobile phone subscriptions with a penetration rate of 131.2% to a population of 32.3 million at the end of 2017. In a study on university students of Malaysia, Ho et al. (2018) revealed that a substantial amount of them (18.83%) actually do not know what to do with the waste mobile phones. This reflects the low awareness amongst university students and the lack of formal management system in Malaysia. Moreover, the findings show the rate of replacements of even functioning phones is high and a significant high stockpile of the waste mobile phones, which in turn increase the generation of e-waste eventually. Tremendous amount of waste mobile phones are expected to be generated in Malaysia. Malaysia is now facing a challenge on how to deal with the ever growing generation of waste mobile phones from users. An insight into their e-waste management practices and key predictors in relation to waste mobile phones recycling intention are therefore essential. This would help to lay the foundation for developing a suitable, workable, effective and efficient system of collecting e-wastes. This study aims to probe into university students' behavioural intentions to recycle waste mobile phones. In the meanwhile, it is expected to derive the policy implications for the future expansion and enhancement of mobile phones recycling response rate. Keywords: Determinants, Mobile Phones, Recycling, Intention, University Students

scholarly journals Investigation of factors affecting power density radiation of mobile phones

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 223
Author(s):  
Ilesanmi B. Oluwafemi ◽  
Johnson O. Adeoye ◽  
Deji M. Faluru ◽  
Dorcas D. Obasanya
Keyword(s):  
General Population ◽  
Ionizing Radiation ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Reference Level ◽  
Population Exposure ◽  
Radiation Level ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Mobile Phone Radiation

The use of mobile phones in Nigeria has greatly increased in the recent year. This has also increased the general population exposure to mobile phone radiation. In this research, the intensity of radiation around selected mobile phones base on some factors are investigated using Radiofrequency Meter (RF) TM-96, 9V DC and Spectrum Analyzer (NA-773, 144/430 MHz) in a bid to confirm how they affect the radiation level. Measurements were taken at distances of 5 cm from the mobile phones when seeking for connections, calls establishing and calls connections under different conditions such as periods of the day, when charging and when not charging, battery charged levels, single and dual SIMs and network signal levels. The radiation levels from the 5 selected mobile phones ranges from 0.3204 to 0.4824 mW/cm2 during call conversation, with the highest radiating mobile phone being Asus while the least was Infinix 3. The radiation levels of these mobile phones are above the International Commission on Non-ionizing Radiation Protection (ICNIRP) reference level, 0.45 mW/cm2. Results also shows that the cell phone battery level, network signal level, the number of inserted SIM cards increases the radiation level of the mobile phones.  

Factors Affecting the Hazardous Waste Management Practices in Heavy Industries

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 108-118
Author(s):  
Kennedy Degaulle Gunawardana ◽  
Chamari K. Jayasinghe ◽  
A. D. Nuwan Gunarathne
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Hazardous Waste ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Hazardous Waste Management ◽  
Company Policy ◽  
Managerial Implications ◽  
Waste Management Practices ◽  
Industry Sectors

Among the different types of waste, hazardous waste poses a serious challenge to humans and the environment if not properly managed. Although many industries generate hazardous waste in various degrees, heavy industries generate the largest volume of hazardous waste. While hazardous waste management (HWM) has been studied well in many industry sectors and countries, it is not so with heavy industries in developing countries. The purpose of this paper was therefore to identify the factors affecting the HWM practices in heavy industries in Sri Lanka. The data was collected from 40 companies in ten different industrial categories of heavy industry. The respondent was the environmental officer of each company. The analysis reveals that technological facilities, public resistance, company policy, and economic factors affect the HWM practices in heavy industries in Sri Lanka. This study has several policy level and managerial implications for HWM in heavy industries to contribute towards the achievement of sustainable development.

Social Resilience in Action

2014 ◽  
pp. 297-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriana Braga ◽  
Robert K. Logan
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Technology ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Social Resilience ◽  
Cell Phone Use ◽  
Mobile Phone Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Complex Picture

Recent statistics about the mobile phone market in Brazil state that for every 100 inhabitants there are 130 mobile phones. Despite the euphoria that those numbers bring to business, the social uses of mobile technology in Brazil tells a lot about Brazilian society and culture itself, and show a more complex picture than merely a marketing phenomenon. The authors examine subversive cell phone use in Brazil against the background of the cell phone use worldwide and the social implications of that cell phone use. As soon as a technology is implemented in a culture, it is possible to observe uses that were not intended by the inventors or producers of that technology. People create different strategies to take advantage of the new resource. Using social interaction theories and an ethnographic approach in the natural setting of cell phone use in Brazil, the authors observed how people use the mobile phone technology for interpersonal communication. This chapter addresses three subversive uses of mobile technology, namely, i.) strategies of mobile phone coding; ii) SIM card management; and iii) criminal uses of mobile phones.

Exploring the Factors Influencing Acceptance of Mobile Phone

2018 ◽  
pp. 156-179
Author(s):  
Renatus Michael Mushi
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Mobile Money ◽  
Mobile Phone Technology ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Perceived Values ◽  
Usage Context

This chapter describes how the adoption and usage of technologies is influenced by a number of factors. Such factors tend to affect the perception of people to accept or reject a technology in their usage context. Mobile phone technology has gained popularity as a dependable tool in SMEs. In Tanzania, for example, it is used to accomplish activities such as marketing, communication and mobile money transactions. This chapter highlights the key factors which influence the acceptance of mobile phones as they are used by individual peoples in the SMEs. The conceptual model shows that TAM can be extended by factors such as perceived values in explaining the acceptance of mobile phone technology in Tanzanian SMEs.

Factors Affecting Mobile Phone Use Among Undergraduate Students in Turkey

2013 ◽  
pp. 234-246
Author(s):  
Ali Acilar
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Mobile Phone Use ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
The World

Mobile phones are one of the fastest-adopted innovations in history. Globally, mobile phones have rapidly become widespread in most parts of the world, especially among the young generation. Young people constitute an important and significant part of mobile phone users. In this study, the author examined the factors affecting mobile phone use among undergraduate students in a developing country. The research data was collected through a convenience sample of undergraduate students in a public university in Turkey. Exploratory factor analysis was used to examine the underlying factors in mobile phone use. Nine factors are identified from the results of factor analysis such as “Information,” “Attitude,” “Mobility,” “Functional service,” “Entertainment/Relaxation,” “Convenience,” “Fashion,” “Sense of security,” and “Multimedia service”.

Sustainable Solid Waste Management in Bangladesh

2020 ◽  
pp. 35-55
Author(s):  
Md. Ashikuzzaman ◽  
Md. Hasan Howlader
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Emerging Issues ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Waste Management Practices

Solid waste management is a grave concern for Bangladesh as by 2025 waste generation per capita will be 0.75 kg/capita/day and total amount of waste will reach 21.07 million tons per year. This chapter attempts to uncover the facts regarding waste management along with the policies and regulations existing in Bangladesh by reviewing published secondary documents. The chapter also contains emerging issues of agricultural, industrial, hazardous, construction, and electronic generation and 3R practices in Bangladesh. Legal instruments for waste management in Bangladesh are also examined. It has been found that enforcing authorities lack the capacity to implement their strategies regarding 3R practices for waste management. Case studies about community-based approach, waste recycling sector, and medical waste management have been exemplified in this chapter. Finally, the authors apprised the issues and challenges of sustainable solid waste management practices and proposed the way forward for Bangladesh to have sustainable solid waste management.

An Evaluation of Potential Yield of Indium Recycled from Waste Mobile Phone in China

2016 ◽  
Vol 847 ◽  
pp. 335-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heng Guang Wang ◽  
Yu Feng Wu ◽  
Yi Fan Gu ◽  
Xian Zhong Mu
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Logistic Model ◽  
Cell Phone ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Potential Yield ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Conduction Properties

In recent years, users replace their mobile phone more and more frequently, therefore, the number of waste mobile phones has been increasing year by year. In 2014, the number was more than 1 billion units. Indium, that has unique optical transparency and electrical conduction properties, is a necessary element in the screen of mobile phone. The potential yield of indium recycled from waste mobile phone is considerable. Recycling indium from waste mobile phones can alleviate the constraints of indium resources while gaining great economic benefit. However, there is no relevant research work to evaluate the potential yield of indium in the waste cell phone. This paper explores the main factors that constraint the efficiency of recycling by predicting potential yield of indium recycled from waste mobile phone, and puts forward the corresponding policy recommendations. The results are based on the Logistic model and Stock-base model and a survey. The results show that the potential yield of indium recycled from waste mobile phone from 2015 to 2035 will increase from 8.7 tonnes to 10.2 tonnes in China. However, the recovery rate of waste mobile phone is very low, the actual available amount is far lower than the potential yield of indium. The main factors that constrain the efficiency of recycling are: (1) it is difficult to guarantee information security; (2) the existing recycling system is not perfect; (3) the technology of recycling indium needs to be improved.

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