Is the WEEE Directive EcoEfficient?

Author

Stevels, Ab

Author_Institution

Design for Sustainability Lab., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

2003

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

12

Abstract

The current WEEE Directive is reviewed as regards its environmental and economic effectiveness. It is concluded that it is a sufficiently flexible platform to start transposition into national laws stakeholders will still have to agree on many items. This concerns both environmental aspects as developing proper definitions, green performance measurement and secondary material issues as well as systems organization and efficiency items as economy of scale, balancing cost and effects of treatments and developing tailor-made strategies. In each of these categories examples are given how this could work out in practice.

Keywords

legislation; recycling; WEEE Directive; Waste of Electric and Electronic Equipment Directive; cost balancing; eco-efficiency; economic effectiveness; economy of scale; environmental effectiveness; green performance measurement; national laws; recycling; secondary material issues; systems organization; Aluminum; Artificial intelligence; Consumer electronics; Copper; Electronic waste; Environmental economics; Iron; Law; Measurement; Recycling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronics and the Environment, 2003. IEEE International Symposium on

ISSN

1095-2020

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7743-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISEE.2003.1208039

Filename

1208039