Sustainable Technologies for Value Addition to Electronic Waste

This book presents a sustainable, effective, and cost-effective solution for the valorization of e-waste for the recovery of expensive, valuable, strategic, heavy, and base metals and rare earth elements. The first section covers sustainable technologies for the valorization of e-waste into metals, materials, and alloys, followed by a section covering sustainable technologies for the valorization of e-waste into plastics and biofuels. Key features: - Explores sustainable techniques for the recovery of metals, materials, and plastics from e-waste. - Describes sustainable (green) technologies for e-waste management. - Covers the recovery and separation of metals, materials, and plastics. - Discusses lifecycle assessment, e-waste management policy, and circular economy. - Includes e-plastic management and the conversion of e-plastic into fuels and materials. This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in environmental engineering and waste management.

Abha Kumari is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Centre for Biotechnology and Biochemical Engineering, Amity Institute of Biotechnology, Amity University, Noida, India. She has earlier served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Biotechnology at Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India; Visiting Researcher at the Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan; DBT Postdoctoral Fellow at National Chemical Laboratory, Pune; and Postdoctoral Fellow at Lakehead University, Ontario, Canada. Ashok Pandey is currently Distinguished Scientist at the Centre for Innovation and Translational Research, CSIR-Indian Institute of Toxicology Research, Lucknow, India. His major research and technological development interests are industrial and environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels and chemicals, waste to wealth and energy, etc. Sang-Hyoun Kim is a full professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Yonsei University, and the Yonsei Lee Youn Jae Fellow (Top 10 faculty in Yonsei University). He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), where he also got his master and bachelor degrees in Civil Engineering and Chemistry, respectively.

1. Valorization of Electronic Waste 2. Recovery of Platinum Group Metals from E-waste 3. Recovery of precious metals from e-waste 4. Recovery of Strategic Metals from Electronic Waste 5. Recovery of Semiconductor Metals from E-waste 6. Recovery of base metals from e-waste 7. Recovery of Toxic Metals and Heavy Metals from E-Waste 8. Recovery of alkali metals from e-waste 9. Recovery of refractory metals and materials from e-waste 10. Recovery of rare earth elements from e-waste 11. Conversion e-plastic to composite materials 12. Recovery of plastic value from e-waste 13. Conversion of plastic e-waste to biofuels 14. E-Waste Recycling: Impact on Circular Economy 15. Application of artificial intelligence tools in e-waste management 16. E-waste management policy worldwide