caa a22 4500 463171322 CHVBK 20180406164814.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10163-007-0179-8 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10163-007-0179-8 Hosoda Eiji Faculty of Economics, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, 108-8345, Tokyo, Japan aut International aspects of recycling of electrical and electronic equipment: material circulation in the East Asian region [Elektronische Daten] [Eiji Hosoda] This article examines the present circumstances of recycling of end-of-life electrical and electronic equipment discarded in Japan from the domestic and international viewpoints of material circulation. It is pointed out that some of the discarded items are absorbed into an invisible flow by informal economic activities, being exported in the form of secondhand equipment and secondary materials. Since the equipment has a pollution potential as well as a resource potential, it is anticipated that the pollution potential may possibly be realized if the equipment is mishandled at recycling plants in developing countries. To reduce the invisible flow as much as possible and to reduce the pollution potential from diffusion in developing countries, a policy tool such as extended producer responsibility should be applied to retailers of the equipment, as well as to producers. Springer-Verlag Tokyo, 2007 End-of-life electrical and electronic equipment nationallicence Material circulation nationallicence Extended Producer Responsibility nationallicence Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management Springer-Verlag 9/2(2007-09-01), 140-150 1438-4957 9:2<140 2007 9 10163 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-007-0179-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-007-0179-8 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hosoda Eiji Faculty of Economics, Keio University, 2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, 108-8345, Tokyo, Japan aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management Springer-Verlag 9/2(2007-09-01), 140-150 1438-4957 9:2<140 2007 9 10163 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer