PMID- 31752628
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200127
LR  - 20200127
IS  - 1096-3669 (Electronic)
VI  - 38
IP  - 2
DP  - 2020 Feb
TI  - Supply chain analysis of e-waste processing plants in developing countries.
PG  - 173-183
LID - 10.1177/0734242X19886633 [doi]
AB  - e-Waste is generated at the staggering rate of 6.1 kg per person. In 2016, 44.7 
      million tonnes was generated globally, and the amount is estimated to reach 52 
      million tonnes annually by 2021. The management of this huge quantity of e-waste 
      is a major problem across the world, primarily in developing countries. An 
      effective e-waste management system is linked to the sustainability of e-waste 
      processing plants, and currently it is plagued with different supply chain 
      network (SCN) issues. To address the issues and challenges of SCN, there is a 
      need to prioritize and address the constructs. The study thus combines two 
      multiple criteria decision making (MCDM) tools, the analytical hierarchy process 
      (AHP) and quality function deployment, to prioritize the constructs identified 
      from literature and supported by field studies. The house of quality (HOQ) has 
      been used for analyzing different stakeholders' requirements. The degree of 
      importance for HOQ-1 has been derived using the AHP tool. The study revealed the 
      most intriguing issues and challenges of e-waste processing plants considering 
      the requirements of different stakeholders. The results showed formal collection, 
      storage, semi-informal collection, and e-waste quality to be the major issues of 
      processing plants. The findings obtained from MCDM analysis have been validated 
      though two case studies in India and China. If the results obtained are applied 
      to the existing e-waste SCN, a holistic e-waste management system can be achieved 
      for developing countries.
FAU - Baidya, Rahul
AU  - Baidya R
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5040-2900
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 
      West Bengal, India.
FAU - Debnath, Biswajit
AU  - Debnath B
AD  - Department of Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata, West 
      Bengal, India.
FAU - Ghosh, Sadhan Kumar
AU  - Ghosh SK
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-9128-5202
AD  - Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Jadavpur, Kolkata, 
      West Bengal, India.
FAU - Rhee, Seung-Whee
AU  - Rhee SW
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-0114-1748
AD  - Department of Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering, Kyonggi 
      University, Suwon-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20191121
PL  - England
TA  - Waste Manag Res
JT  - Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and 
      Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
JID - 9881064
SB  - IM
MH  - China
MH  - Developing Countries
MH  - *Electronic Waste
MH  - India
MH  - *Waste Management
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - AHP
OT  - India
OT  - QFD
OT  - analytical hierarchy process
OT  - e-Waste
OT  - quality function deployment
OT  - sustainability
EDAT- 2019/11/23 06:00
MHDA- 2020/01/28 06:00
CRDT- 2019/11/23 06:00
PHST- 2019/11/23 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/01/28 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/11/23 06:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/0734242X19886633 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Waste Manag Res. 2020 Feb;38(2):173-183. doi: 10.1177/0734242X19886633. Epub 2019 
      Nov 21.