TY - JOUR
T1 - Systematic literature review of reverse logistics for e-waste
T2 - overview, analysis, and future research agenda
AU - Ni, Zhiqin
AU - Chan, Hing Kai
AU - Tan, Zhen
N1 - Funding Information:
The e-waste tracing project, which was funded by the European Commission, uses RFID tags during e-waste collection to ensure full traceability. The use of tracing led to a 25% increase in the amount of e-waste legally collected compared to 2009, as well as a 29% reduction in CO2 emissions and a 20–30% reduction in the administrative costs of treatment (Conti and Orcioni ). However, given the costs of attaching RFID tags to e-waste, the tracing project is a voluntarily based activity, it would be difficult to scale up this initiative without regulatory intervention.
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PY - 2023/10
Y1 - 2023/10
N2 - If the waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE or e-waste) is not appropriately disposed of, it can endanger both human health and the environment by contaminating the air, water, and soil. The purpose of e-waste reverse logistics (RL) is to collect, disassemble, remanufacture, recycle and dispose of end-of-life (EOL) electrical and electronic products to mitigate the risk of environmental damage and maximise the extraction of economic value. In this systematic literature review, we conducted a content analysis of 162 papers written in English from 1998 to 2021 and identified six main research themes on e-waste RL: 1) e-waste legislation and policy, 2) barriers, critical success factors, and solutions, 3) e-waste RL network design decisions, 4) e-waste RL system evaluations and frameworks, 5) consumer e-waste return behaviour, 6) technology-based e-waste RL initiatives. By synthesising these research themes, a conceptual framework of reverse logistics for e-waste is constructed. The review then discusses the limitations and research gaps of each theme and concludes by proposing a detailed future research agenda across 13 specific research topics.
AB - If the waste of electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE or e-waste) is not appropriately disposed of, it can endanger both human health and the environment by contaminating the air, water, and soil. The purpose of e-waste reverse logistics (RL) is to collect, disassemble, remanufacture, recycle and dispose of end-of-life (EOL) electrical and electronic products to mitigate the risk of environmental damage and maximise the extraction of economic value. In this systematic literature review, we conducted a content analysis of 162 papers written in English from 1998 to 2021 and identified six main research themes on e-waste RL: 1) e-waste legislation and policy, 2) barriers, critical success factors, and solutions, 3) e-waste RL network design decisions, 4) e-waste RL system evaluations and frameworks, 5) consumer e-waste return behaviour, 6) technology-based e-waste RL initiatives. By synthesising these research themes, a conceptual framework of reverse logistics for e-waste is constructed. The review then discusses the limitations and research gaps of each theme and concludes by proposing a detailed future research agenda across 13 specific research topics.
KW - E-waste
KW - research agenda
KW - reverse logistics
KW - systematic literature review
KW - waste of electrical and electronic equipment
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U2 - 10.1080/13675567.2021.1993159
DO - 10.1080/13675567.2021.1993159
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85117273310
SN - 1367-5567
VL - 26
SP - 843
EP - 871
JO - International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
JF - International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications
IS - 7
ER -