Nišić, D.; Lukić, B.; Gordić, Z.; Pantelić, U.; Vukićević, A. E-Waste Management in Serbia, Focusing on the Possibility of Applying Automated Separation Using Robots. Appl. Sci.2024, 14, 5685.
Nišić, D.; Lukić, B.; Gordić, Z.; Pantelić, U.; Vukićević, A. E-Waste Management in Serbia, Focusing on the Possibility of Applying Automated Separation Using Robots. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 5685.
Nišić, D.; Lukić, B.; Gordić, Z.; Pantelić, U.; Vukićević, A. E-Waste Management in Serbia, Focusing on the Possibility of Applying Automated Separation Using Robots. Appl. Sci.2024, 14, 5685.
Nišić, D.; Lukić, B.; Gordić, Z.; Pantelić, U.; Vukićević, A. E-Waste Management in Serbia, Focusing on the Possibility of Applying Automated Separation Using Robots. Appl. Sci. 2024, 14, 5685.
Abstract
To encourage proper waste management from 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 on 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.
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Waste Management and Disposal
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