E-Waste Management in Serbia, Focusing on the Possibility of Applying Automated Separation Using Robots

To encourage proper waste management for electrical and electronic devices (e-waste), it is necessary to invest heavily in the development of recycling technologies. One way to improve the process is to automate separating the shredded parts of e-waste using a robot. This paper’s literature review,...

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Published inApplied sciences Vol. 14; no. 13; p. 5685
Main Authors Nišić, Dragana, Lukić, Branko, Gordić, Zaviša, Pantelić, Uroš, Vukićević, Arso
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.07.2024
Subjects
Artificial intelligence
Automation
Circular economy
e-waste
Efficiency
Electronic waste
Gold
Hazardous materials
Landfill
Literature reviews
recycling
Recycling centers
robot
Robots
Waste management
waste separation
Serbia
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Summary:To encourage proper waste management for electrical and electronic devices (e-waste), it is necessary to invest heavily in the development of recycling technologies. One way to improve the process is to automate separating the shredded parts of e-waste using a robot. This paper’s literature review, utilizing the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) framework, showcases potential robotic technologies for e-waste separation. However, the intricate design of these devices can pose significant challenges in their implementation. Various legal, organizational, and sociological obstacles have left Serbia’s e-waste management practice underdeveloped, resulting in an unsatisfactory recycling rate. In this paper, we examined the possibility of using robots in the precise example of recycling refrigerators in a recycling center in Eastern Serbia, concluding that such a solution would have multiple positive effects, both on the employees and the working environment, on the operations of the recycling center itself, and on increasing the e-waste recycling rate in the country.
ISSN:2076-3417
2076-3417
DOI:10.3390/app14135685