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What you are suggestion for reducing e-waste through

reverse supply chain?


The fast development of e-waste during these years has
made serious impact on environment and society. The
finest solution for reducing e-waste is REVERSE
SUPPLY CHAIN. This is nothing but the waste
material can be reuse, recycling, remanufacturing and
repairing in a right manner.
In Reverse Supply Chain, the loss of prevention,
regulation and life cycle of product is very difficult.
Electronic industries should give more contribution and
investment for establishing the whole process. It can
bring a great benefits and better consumer loyalty so as
to keep up their long lasting relationship. All the
electronic companies are supposed to implement the
reverse supply chain process by considering the
environmental concerns. So, the companies must be
prepared to confront certain number of difficulties after
the establishment of product. The conflict can emerge
among retailer and maker as a result of the delayed time
in returning the product. It turns out to be critical to
keep up the spotless working with patrner which will
result in mutual advantage.
Both hazardous and non-hazardous electronic waste is
gathered from different sources, for example, main
supplier, maker, retailer, and end-customer. Afterward,
these gathered wastes are handled and made to certain
treatment. At last, the recycled products are sent back to
separate sources.
The customer can restore the waste goods which
essentially include undesirable wastes, defected pieces,
items having guarantee issues, reviews, alongside the
issue of miss-shipments. The most challenging truth is
that while reusing the e-wastes is connected with the
administrative approaches. Thus, the companies should
concentrate in arranging of reverse supply chain. The
companies should treat the reverse supply chain process
as a value and brand-enhancement stream.

Process of E-cycle recycling:


1. Collection:
At the point when the e-waste products land at the
recycling plants, the initial step includes arranging
every one of the things manually. Batteries are
evacuated for quality check.

2. Dismantling:
After arranging by hand, the second step includes a
genuine work concentrated process of manual
disassembling. The e-waste products are dismantled to
recover every parts and afterward classified into core
materials and components. The disassembled products
are then isolated into different classifications into parts
that can be re-utilized or still proceed with the reusing
forms.
3. Initial size decrease process:
Here, products that can't be destroyed productively are
shredded together with the other disassembled parts to
pieces under 2 inches in breadth. It is done in
anticipation of further order of the better e-waste pieces.

4. Final size decrease process:


The better e-waste particles are then uniformly spread
out through a computerized shaking process on a
transport line. Further, the spread out e-waste pieces are
then separated. At this stage, any residue is removed
and disposed of in a manner that does not degrade the
naturally.

5. Over-band Magnet:
At this progression, over-band magnet is utilized to
expel all the magnetic materials including steel and iron
from the e-waste trash.

6. Non-metallic and metallic components division:


The sixth step is the detachment of metals and non-
metallic parts. Copper, aluminum, and metal are
isolated from the trash to just leave non-metallic
materials. The metals are either sold as crude materials
or re-utilized for new assembling.
7. Water Separation:
At the final step, plastic material is isolated from glass
by utilization of water. One isolated, every one of the
materials recovered would then be able to be exchanged
as crude materials for re-use. The items sold incorporate
plastic, glass, copper, iron, steel, destroyed circuit
sheets, and profitable metal mix.

E-cycle parts re-use


1. Plastic:
All the plastic materials recovered are sent to recyclers
who use them to make things, for example, fence posts,
plastic sleepers, plastic plate, vineyard stakes, and gear
holders or protectors among other plastic items.

2. Metal:
Scrap metals materials recovered are sent to recyclers to
make new steel and other metallic materials.

3. Glass:
Glass is recovered from the Cathode Ray Tubes (CRTs)
for the most part found in TVs and PC screens.
Separating glass for reusing from CRTs is an
increasingly confounded undertaking since CRTs are
made out of a few risky materials. Lead is the most
risky and can unfavorably hurt human well being and
the earth. Tubes in huge CRT screens can contain
elevated amounts of lead of as much as 4 kilograms.
Other harmful metals, for example, barium and
phosphor are likewise contained in CRT tubes. To
achieve the simplest environmentally friendly glass
extraction, the subsequent steps guarantee a specialised
gas-discharge tube recycling:

 Manual separation of the gas-discharge tube from


the tv or monitor body
 Size reduction method wherever the gas-discharge
tube is sliced into smaller items. dirt is eliminated
associate degreed disposed in an environmentally
friendly method.
 All metals ar removal through over-band magnets,
wherever metallic element and non-ferrous
elements ar eliminated from the glass materials.
 A laundry line is then wont to clear oxides and
phosphors from the glass
 Glass sorting is that the final step whereby leaded
glass is separated from non-leaded glass. The
extracts will then be used for creating new screens.

4. Mercury:
Mercury containing gadgets are sent to mercury reusing
facilities that uses a specific innovation for end for use
in dental amalgams and metric instruments, and for
fluorescent lighting. Different segments, for example,
glass and plastics are re-utilized for assembling of their
particular items.

5. Printed Circuit Boards:


Circuit sheets are sent to specific and authorize
companies where they are purified to recover non-
inexhaustible assets, for example, silver, tin, gold,
palladium, copper and other important metals.

6. Hard Drives:
Hard drives are destroyed in entire part and handled
into aluminum ingots for use in automobile or car
industry.

7. Ink and Toner Cartridges:


Ink and toner cartridges are reclaimed to particular
industries for reusing. They are re-manufactured while
those that can't are isolated into metal and plastic for re-
use as crude materials.

8. Batteries:
Batteries are taken to specific recyclers where they are
hulled to take out plastic. The metals are purified is
specific conditions to recuperate nickel, steel, cadmium
and cobalt that are re-utilized for new battery creation
and manufacture of treated steel.

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