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ArticleToxics2021

Analysis of Households' E-Waste Awareness, Disposal Behavior, and Estimation of Potential Waste Mobile Phones towards an Effective E-Waste Management System in Dubai.

Yousra Attia, Prashant Kumar Soori, Fadi Ghaith

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Article in Toxics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Yousra AttiaSchool of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Dubai Knowledge Park, Dubai P.O. Box 38103, United Arab Emirates.
Prashant Kumar SooriSchool of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Dubai Knowledge Park, Dubai P.O. Box 38103, United Arab Emirates.
Fadi GhaithSchool of Engineering & Physical Sciences, Heriot Watt University, Dubai Knowledge Park, Dubai P.O. Box 38103, United Arab Emirates.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During the recent decades, the world has seen ongoing economic and technological development which resulted in the generation of huge volumes of electrical and electronic waste (e-waste). In the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) ranks among countries with large e-waste generation due to its consumers' high spending on electronic devices thereby resulting in a high obsolescence rate in the country. Accordingly, this study aims to analyze the e-waste management and recycling practices in the UAE. It takes Dubai as a case study and conducts a structured questionnaire to analyze households' awareness, consumption of electronic devices in general and mobile phones in particular, and the disposal behavior of e-waste. Waste mobile phones is taken as a key representative in this study, in which potential waste mobile phones is estimated using the Approximation 1 method in the period 2021-2030. Results from the survey illustrated gaps among households' awareness and disposal behavior of e-waste, where e-waste recycling rates were noticed to be low. Based on these gaps, strategies were proposed for an effective e-waste management system in the context of Dubai, and were supported by the proposal of an e-waste legislation framework in the UAE.

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Dubai-UAEe-wastee-waste management systemhouseholdsquestionnaire surveywaste mobile phones

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PMID34678932
PMCPMC8539238

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