E-Waste Awareness

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2.0 LITERATURE REVIEW
From the literature review, there are public awareness about e-waste, approaches to manage e-waste and hazardous materials released from e-waste.
2.1 Public awareness about e-waste
Public awareness is people’s concern, understanding or perception for a situation or subject. Public awareness about e-waste is people do have knowledge and understanding what are e-waste and also its impact. According to Pinto (2008), e-waste can be is any electric or electronic product which has reached their life of cycle which means cannot be used anymore as whole or as a part of it such as mobile phone, laptops, TVs and other electronic appliances. The growing rate is growing at multiply around the world which is contributed by the high …show more content…

Therefore, from this case, we can know how important of the awareness among public to the issue of e-waste. The level of public awareness is affecting the generation of e-waste because the people in the main cause of e-waste. No matter how the government enforce the laws or rules, the public awareness is the main things that need to be aware. The waste collection centre only will be used by public when they do have the knowledge about the e-waste. This is also supported by the study of Anuj Shah (2014). Anuj Shah (2014) stated even India has provides extensive information about health and environmental impact of e-waste, and also the infrastructural support such as collection centre. However, Indian public’s awareness about e-waste is weak. For example, they did not follow the government policies about e-waste management and dispose the e-waste inappropriately. Without public awareness of the inherent hazards, accumulation of such waste will have dire consequences for the human …show more content…

Disassembly is a systematic approach that allows the removal of a component, part, group of parts or a subassembly from a product (partial disassembly) or the separation of a product into all of its component parts (complete disassembly) for a defined purpose. (I. Dalrymple, N. Wright, R. Kellner et al., 2007)
2.2.4 Crushing or comminution
This category consists of mechanical processes such as physical impaction, shredding/fragmentation and granulation, which break down products to enable the salvaging of reusable and recyclable parts, components and materials. Shredding breaks down the product into pieces via ripping or tearing which may then be sorted into material streams having dissimilar subsequent processing demands. Granulation is the mechanical processing of production scrap, post-consumer plastic packaging, industrial parts, or other materials into fine

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