A cost-benefit analysis of the downstream impacts of e-waste recycling in Pakistan.
Cost-benefit analysis
Economic
Electronic waste (e-waste)
Pakistan
Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA)
Social impact
Journal
Waste management (New York, N.Y.)
ISSN: 1879-2456
Titre abrégé: Waste Manag
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9884362
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2020
Dec 2020
Historique:
received:
25
06
2020
revised:
26
07
2020
accepted:
23
08
2020
pubmed:
13
9
2020
medline:
21
10
2020
entrez:
12
9
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This paper presents downstream cost-benefit analysis for electronic waste (e-waste) recycling workers in Pakistan, a country that both generates large quantities of e-waste domestically and imports a significant amount from developed countries. Financial cost-benefit elements - reduction in productive capacity, lost wages, medical expenses, wages (and meals) and non-financial cost-benefit elements - opportunity cost, cost of illiteracy and value of life have been quantified. Primary data collected on site was analyzed using quantitative and qualitative methods. The estimated total net economic cost to recycling workers is between Rs.34,069 and Rs.85,478 (US$ 203-510
Identifiants
pubmed: 32919349
pii: S0956-053X(20)30481-5
doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2020.08.039
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
302-312Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.