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Take responsibility for electronic-waste disposal

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  • Zhaohua Wang

    (Zhaohua Wang is professor and Bin Zhang is a researcher in the School of Management and Economics, and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, China.)

  • Bin Zhang

    (Zhaohua Wang is professor and Bin Zhang is a researcher in the School of Management and Economics, and the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology, China.)

  • Dabo Guan

    (Dabo Guan is professor in climate-change economics, School of International Development, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.)

Abstract

International cooperation is needed to stop developed nations simply offloading defunct electronics on developing countries, argue Zhaohua Wang, Bin Zhang and Dabo Guan.

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  • Zhaohua Wang & Bin Zhang & Dabo Guan, 2016. "Take responsibility for electronic-waste disposal," Nature, Nature, vol. 536(7614), pages 23-25, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:536:y:2016:i:7614:d:10.1038_536023a
    DOI: 10.1038/536023a
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    1. Zhang, Bin & Du, Zhanjie & Wang, Bo & Wang, Zhaohua, 2019. "Motivation and challenges for e-commerce in e-waste recycling under “Big data” context: A perspective from household willingness in China," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 144(C), pages 436-444.
    2. Ahmed I. Salameh & Mohamed El Tarhuni, 2022. "From 5G to 6G—Challenges, Technologies, and Applications," Future Internet, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-35, April.
    3. Matthew S. Brown & Louis Somma & Melissa Mendoza & Yeonsik Noh & Gretchen J. Mahler & Ahyeon Koh, 2022. "Upcycling Compact Discs for Flexible and Stretchable Bioelectronic Applications," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-12, December.
    4. Natalie W. M. Wong, 2018. "Electronic Waste Governance under “One Country, Two Systems”: Hong Kong and Mainland China," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(11), pages 1-16, October.
    5. Yutong Sun & Shangrong Jiang & Shouyang Wang, 2024. "The environmental impacts and sustainable pathways of the global diamond industry," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 11(1), pages 1-12, December.
    6. Barlow, Pepita & Stuckler, David, 2021. "Globalization and health policy space: introducing the WTO health dataset of trade challenges to national health regulations at World Trade Organization, 1995-2016," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 108988, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    7. Barlow, P. & Stuckler, D., 2021. "Globalization and health policy space: Introducing the WTOhealth dataset of trade challenges to national health regulations at World Trade Organization, 1995–2016," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 275(C).
    8. Fei Li & Jiuyi Zhu & Pengzhan Sun & Mingrui Zhang & Zhenqing Li & Dingxin Xu & Xinyu Gong & Xiaolong Zou & A. K. Geim & Yang Su & Hui-Ming Cheng, 2022. "Highly efficient and selective extraction of gold by reduced graphene oxide," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
    9. van der Merwe, Antoinette & Cabernard, Livia & Günther, Isabel, 2023. "Urban mining: The relevance of information, transaction costs and externalities," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 205(C).
    10. Guzzo, Daniel & Rodrigues, Vinicius Picanço & Mascarenhas, Janaina, 2021. "A systems representation of the Circular Economy: Transition scenarios in the electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) industry," Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Elsevier, vol. 163(C).
    11. Samuel Abalansa & Badr El Mahrad & John Icely & Alice Newton, 2021. "Electronic Waste, an Environmental Problem Exported to Developing Countries: The GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(9), pages 1-24, May.

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