Sustainable Planning of Precious and Rare Elements’ Recycling From Waste Electronic Products

A Waste Electrical-Electronic Equipment (WEEE) recycling company is taken into account which operates in Turkey. It is assumed that WEEE are collected from 7 regions of Turkey, from a pre-determined location of each region. Data was collected from different resources about the collected/recycling amounts of products on a regional basis, the amount of precious metals obtained from recycling operations, operational and logistic costs, labor costs and the amount of CO2 emitted during the recycling processes and logistics. Annual collection targets for different kinds of WEEE (especially for electronic product wastes) were determined by the Ministry of Environment for different future years. The data for the amount of rare and precious element from each type of electronic product was collected from the literature. Besides, the data of the amount of toxic materials in each type of products was taken from the literature. The distances from the center of the geographical regions to the facilty were obtained from Google Maps. For the amount of emissions due to the logistics of the WEEE into the facility, for a selected truck type, its fuel consumption for a given payload in these conditions were taken from the associated open data sources. Other scalar and parametric data are explained in detail in the appended file. Some sensitive cost data is not revealed due to the privacy issues.本研究以土耳其境内运营的一家废弃电器电子产品（Waste Electrical-Electronic Equipment, WEEE）回收企业为研究对象。假设该企业从土耳其7个行政区的指定收集点回收废弃电器电子产品。本研究从多源渠道收集了以下数据：各区域的产品回收/再循环量、回收环节获取的贵金属量、运营与物流成本、人力成本，以及回收流程与物流过程中产生的二氧化碳排放量。土耳其环境部针对各类废弃电器电子产品（尤其是电子产品废弃物）设定了不同未来年份的年度回收目标。各类电子产品中稀有与贵金属含量的数据均来自公开文献；同时，各类产品中的有毒物质含量数据也来源于公开文献。各地理区域中心至回收工厂的距离数据通过谷歌地图（Google Maps）获取。针对将废弃电器电子产品运至工厂的物流环节排放量，本研究选取了特定型号的货车，其在指定载荷条件下的燃油消耗数据来自相关公开数据源。其余标量与参数类数据详见附录文件。鉴于隐私问题，部分敏感成本数据未予披露。