Nile University, EGYPT
Online published on 31 October, 2017.
Electronic waste (E-waste) is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the world in both developed and developing countries. The tremendous increasing “market penetration ”in developing countries, “replacement market ”in developed countries, and “high obsolescence rate ”of mobile technologies make E-waste one of the fastest waste streams. On one hand, E-waste contains valuable materials like copper, aluminium and precious metals like silver, gold, platinum, etc. On the other hand, the presences of elements like lead, mercury, etc., makes E-waste as a hazardous waste. With the absence of appropriate legislations and protective measures of improper handling of E-waste will result in toxic emissions to the air, water and soil and pose significant health and environmental hazard.
Based on the above, there is a pressing need to address proper E-waste management particularly in developing countries.
This research work covers the electronic waste within the ICT sector with particular emphasize on mobile phones. The choice of the mobile phone is because the mobile phone industry is a tremendously growing industry in the developing countries and mobile phones are the most widely used and affordable communications devices. This is a situation existing widely in Egypt. The other interest in mobile phones relates to the fact that the mobile phones are amongst the other E-waste equipment that have the highest economic value due to the precious metals contained in them.
Therefore, this paper presents, analyses the studies and researches of the E-waste mobile management practice in Egypt. It discusses the potentials and threats of E-waste/mobile waste recycling, and the different phases of recycling, the significance of adopting an efficient and effective mobile waste recycling system.
The period under consideration in this paper is 2005–2025 @2016 Nile University all right reserved
E-waste, recycling, environmental sustainable management, Egypt
