Fostering sustainable electronic waste management through intelligent sorting equipment
Paper in proceeding, 2015
Joint forces of industry and academia can pave the way to truly foster sustainability of Waste of Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) management. Against this background, the WEEE ID project funded by VINNOVA (Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems) developed an intelligent, automated sorting equipment for used electronics’ segregation and grading. It prevents operators from being exposed to hazardous substances from segregation processes and enables higher recycling rates within downstream processes thanks to increased sorting efficiency and accuracy. This abstract explores how the knowledge and technology developed within the WEEE ID project may have a positive impact on WEEE (or “e-waste”) management sustainability performance.
sorting
artificial intelligence
e-waste
WEEE
sustainability
Author
Ilaria Giovanna Barletta
Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems
Björn Johansson
Chalmers, Product and Production Development, Production Systems
Klas Cullbrand
CIT Industriell Energi AB
Max Björkman
Stiftelsen Chalmers Industriteknik
Johanna Reimers
ReFind Technologies
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
21618070 (ISSN) 21618089 (eISSN)
Special Session Presentation-Only 459-461978-1-4673-8183-3 (ISBN)
Subject Categories
Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics
Environmental Management
Other Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
Driving Forces
Sustainable development
Areas of Advance
Production
DOI
10.1109/CoASE.2015.7294122