A growing stream of environmental legislation enforces collection and recycling of used electrical and electronics products. Based on our experiences with producers coping with e-waste legislation, we find there is a strong need for research on the implications of such legislation from an operations perspective. In particular, as a discipline at the interface of systems design and economic mode...

PM2.5, total suspended particles (TSP) and gas phase samples were collected at two sites of Taizhou, a major e-waste dismantling area in China. Concentrations, seasonal variations, congener profiles, gas-particle partitioning and size distribution of the atmospheric polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were studied to assess the current state of atmospheric PCBs after the phase out of massive histo...

Microbial source tracking (MST) has become a focus of some recreational beach monitoring programs. Suspected sources of contamination include human sewage, agricultural runoff, and feces from wildlife and domestic animals, depending on beach location. Waterfowl have been suggested as a primary source of fecal contamination at many beaches, but techniques to “prove” contaminating microbes are of...

There are more than half million tons of serpentine waste produced per year during mining operation in Taiwan. This study is to develop a process to manufacture fire-resistant geopolymer based on serpentine waste. The experiment results show that the waste serpentine-based geopolymer have very good physical/mechanical characteristics. For fire resistance tests, a 10 mm thick geopolymer panel wa...

Green Computing or Green IT refers to the study and practice of using computing resources in an eco-friendly manner in order to tone down its negative impacts on the environment. The major thrust should be to reduce the unnecessary energy consumption, decrease the use of hazardous materials, minimize travel and limit printing so as to have minimum impact on the environment. To implement green c...

This paper develops a new performance evaluation approach for evaluating the relative recycling sustainability performance of e-waste products in terms of their contribution to the corporate sustainability of an e-recycling company. A fuzzy pairwise comparison process is used to help make comparative assessments. A fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) is...

e-Negotiation involves two or more agents multilaterally bargaining for mutual gain, using information technologies in a cooperative problem-solving (CPS) environment. This paper only focuses on integrative negotiations. For example, one party reaches its goals and the other party also gains benefits. One of the strategies for achieving integrative solutions is called logrolling. Logrolling in ...

E-waste currently represents a portion of global waste problem; nevertheless, e-waste quantities are continuously fast rising all over the world. As the waste problem increases, new business opportunities related to their reuse and recycling could be evaluated. The paper focuses on a particular type of e-waste: mobile phones as they are the most ubiquitous electronic equipment. By analysing mar...

This report describes an investigation into the applicability of Dempster Shafer theory for representing the uncertainty inherent in the characterization of containerized radiological waste. This research has been conducted by scientists at the Mississippi State University Diagnostic Instrumentation and Analysis Laboratory in collaboration with scientists at the Idaho National Engineering Labor...