Modeling the Impact of Product Portfolio on the Economic and Environmental Performance of Recycling Systems
hrough the development of a general model of electronics recycling systems, the effect of product portfolio choices on economic and environmental system performance is explored. The general model encompasses the three main functions of a recycling system-collection, processing, and system management...
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| author | Dahmus, Jeffrey B. Olivetti, Elsa A. Fredholm, Susan A. Gregory, Jeremy Kirchain, Randolph E., Jr. |
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| description | hrough the development of a general model of electronics recycling systems, the effect of product portfolio choices on economic and environmental system performance is explored. The general model encompasses the three main functions of a recycling system-collection, processing, and system management-and allows for the effect of both contextual and architectural inputs-including product scope-to be explored. Overall model results indicate that collecting a broader portfolio of products can be economically favorable, even for cases in which lower-value products are added to a recycling system. In these cases, the higher total mass throughputs that are realized by the collection of additional product types can help to drive down the cost per unit mass collected. Expanding product scope can also yield improvements in environmental performance, as the energy per unit mass collected can also decrease with higher mass throughputs. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/589932022-09-28T16:02:20Z Modeling the Impact of Product Portfolio on the Economic and Environmental Performance of Recycling Systems Dahmus, Jeffrey B. Olivetti, Elsa A. Fredholm, Susan A. Gregory, Jeremy Kirchain, Randolph E., Jr. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Materials Systems Laboratory Kirchain, Randolph E., Jr. Dahmus, Jeffrey B. Olivetti, Elsa A. Fredholm, Susan A. Gregory, Jeremy Kirchain, Randolph E., Jr. electronic waste electronics recycling systems process-based cost models product scope hrough the development of a general model of electronics recycling systems, the effect of product portfolio choices on economic and environmental system performance is explored. The general model encompasses the three main functions of a recycling system-collection, processing, and system management-and allows for the effect of both contextual and architectural inputs-including product scope-to be explored. Overall model results indicate that collecting a broader portfolio of products can be economically favorable, even for cases in which lower-value products are added to a recycling system. In these cases, the higher total mass throughputs that are realized by the collection of additional product types can help to drive down the cost per unit mass collected. Expanding product scope can also yield improvements in environmental performance, as the energy per unit mass collected can also decrease with higher mass throughputs. 2010-10-08T19:09:38Z 2010-10-08T19:09:38Z 2009-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 978-1-4244-4324-6 INSPEC Accession Number: 10749789 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58993 Dahmus, J.B. et al. “Modeling the impact of product portfolio on the economic and environmental performance of recycling systems.” Sustainable Systems and Technology, 2009. ISSST '09. IEEE International Symposium on. 2009. 1-6. © 2009 IEEE https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8043-2385 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISSST.2009.5156765 International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, 2009 Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE |
| spellingShingle | electronic waste electronics recycling systems process-based cost models product scope Dahmus, Jeffrey B. Olivetti, Elsa A. Fredholm, Susan A. Gregory, Jeremy Kirchain, Randolph E., Jr. Modeling the Impact of Product Portfolio on the Economic and Environmental Performance of Recycling Systems |
| title | Modeling the Impact of Product Portfolio on the Economic and Environmental Performance of Recycling Systems |
| title_full | Modeling the Impact of Product Portfolio on the Economic and Environmental Performance of Recycling Systems |
| title_fullStr | Modeling the Impact of Product Portfolio on the Economic and Environmental Performance of Recycling Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Modeling the Impact of Product Portfolio on the Economic and Environmental Performance of Recycling Systems |
| title_short | Modeling the Impact of Product Portfolio on the Economic and Environmental Performance of Recycling Systems |
| title_sort | modeling the impact of product portfolio on the economic and environmental performance of recycling systems |
| topic | electronic waste electronics recycling systems process-based cost models product scope |
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