Paper Info
Title
Environmental Information System for Waste Electrical Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Managent: Case Study of Pernambuco (Brazil).
Abstract
The National Policy on Solid Waste (NPSW) brought a new dimension to waste management in Brazil. According to the requirements of this law, producers, traders, recyclers, importers, distributors, and consumers are each held responsible for waste outcomes. The establishment of reverse logistics systems, also proposed by the law, begins from the management of diffuse interests in support of environmentally sound disposal of waste. However, no form of monitoring or implementing process improvements is possible without knowledge of the managed resources and control of the activities. Energy usage from fuel consumption is a central concern for sustainable waste management through reverse logistics systems (RLS). The distances travelled, the type of fuel, and the defined routes are some of the criteria to be evaluated in energy performance improvement. Thus, as preliminary results of a survey of international cooperation between Brazil and the United States, we propose a method of operating waste collection systems, with the support of an environmental information system (EIS) and integration of electronic waste management stations from a cooperative of waste pickers located in Pernambuco (Brazil). Our findings suggest the importance of the EIS prototype in compliance with legal requirements and the potential for improvement of the proposed solution.
Year
Venue
Field
2014
EnviroInfo
Information system,Cleaner production,Reverse logistics,National Policy,Electronic waste,Waste management,Engineering,Fuel efficiency,Waste collection,Environmental economics,Municipal solid waste
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
2
0.49
References 
Authors
4
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lucia Helena Xavier120.49
David Lee212715.14
Dietmar Offenhuber3276.31
Carlo Ratti41211113.38
Alexsandro Diniz520.49
Rodrigo Medeiros620.49