<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Feng Wang</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Economic conditions for developing large scale WEEE recycling infrastructure based on manual dismantling in China - The learning experience from the setup of a pilot plant</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ewaste.ch/files/Wang_2008.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Universiteit Leiden / Delft University of Technology</style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Leiden / Delft</style></pub-location><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Best of 2 Worlds project is a research initiative to develop a large scale recycling
facility for WEEE in China based on the conception of the project, which proposes
utilizing manual dismantling as the pre-treatment process to separate fractions until
the optimal level is reached and apply best available technology to treat the critical
fractions afterward.
The objective of this thesis is to analyze the economic conditions for the
development of large scale recycling facility in China, through the observation of the
existent recyclers and the learning experience of setting up a pilot workshop for the
stimulation and testing of the blue print to the Bo2W project.
Through the examination of the status quo for the existent e-waste recyclers in
China, the opportunity and the weakness for developing the e-waste dismantling
facility is summarized. After setting up a pilot plant in Taizhou for trial, a group of
waste equipments are dismantled for testing. An economic model based on the
assembly tree and the Process-based Cost Model is developed to seek the optimal
dismantling level and analyze the overall performance of the pilot plant, and
corresponding recommendation is put forward according to the analysis result.
General observation from the existing e-waste recyclers is that the formal
recyclers should be economically competitive to compete over the informal recycling
by ensuring sufficient e-waste supply and lowering the overall cost in the existing
market. The construction and the economic analysis towards the Bo2W pilot
workshop provide the evidence that the scale of economy, labor cost, dismantling
efficiency, reuse strategy, and the material prices are the key parameters which
influence the economic performance of the recyclers based on manual dismantling.
The general sequence of setting up the recycling facility is to apply for legal
recycling license from the government, make blueprint and detailed constructing
plans for incremental development, set up EHS/ monitoring and dynamic accounting
system to update the recycling activities, gradually establish business network and
accumulate government support.
The main suggestion for developing a large scale e-waste recycling facility is to
firstly establish stable supply channels for the feed-in of e-waste streams, to set up
incremental planning for gradual scaling up, and to keep dynamic auditing towards
the changing factors like labor cost, new techniques and tools, material price level to
adjust the recycling strategy correspondingly. Continuous circular flow of the capital
from the waste equipment purchasing to the revenue gaining of the recycling would
enable the recycler to receive stable turnover to be gradually competitive.
Monitored and restricted financial scheme should be issued by the government or
producers’ association to fund the formal recyclers to enable their surviving in the
market in the early stage of development, but the recyclers should be economically
autonomous in a long run view. Market and policy intervention should be made by the
government to enhance the competitiveness of the formal recyclers in the market.</style></abstract><work-type><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Master Thesis</style></work-type></record></records></xml>