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• End of life management for ICT equipment
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • Executive summary
  • 1 Introduction
    • 1.1 Target audience
    • 1.2 Objectives
  • 2 End-of-life management
    • 2.1 Definition of end-of-life for ICT equipment
    • 2.1.1 Definition of environmentally sound management of e-waste
    • 2.2 General description of the end-of-life management chain for ICT equipment
    • 2.2.1 Transboundary movements of hazardous wastes and other wastes
    • 2.3 End-of-life Management: steps for the organization
    • 2.3.1 From an Internal Perspective
    • 2.3.2 From High-Technology Business Districts
    • 2.3.3 From a donations receptor perspective
    • 2.4 End-of-life management: stages and waste hierarchy
    • 2.4.1 General legal framework
    • 2.4.2 Asset management
    • 2.4.3 Secure information management
    • 2.4.4 Reverse logistics
    • 2.4.5 Dismantling and segregation
    • 2.4.6 Refurbishment
    • 2.4.7 Reuse
    • 2.4.8 Recycling and recovery
    • 2.4 A guide to best practice
  • 3 General material recovery and recycling facility guidelines
    • 3.1 Environmental management system, licences and permits
    • 3.2 Monitoring and record keeping
    • 3.3 Emergency planning
    • 3.4 Occupational health and safety: best practices to ensure workers' safety
    • 3.5 Personal protective equipment
    • 3.6 Employee training
    • 3.7 Financial guarantees
  • 4 Clean supply chain and conflict minerals
  • 5 Socio-economic issues
  • 6 Offsetting opportunities and mitigation
    • 6.1 Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
    • 6.2 CO2 management
  • 7 Case studies
  • 8 Checklists
    • 8.1 An internal prospective
    • 8.2 The perspective of high-technology business districts
    • 8.3 The perspective of a donation receptor
  • 9 Conclusions
    • 9.1 Suggestions to ITU-T SG 5
    • 1. ICT product design issues
    • 2. Technical guidance applicable to refurbishment and repair facilities as well as marketing of used ICT equipment
    • 3. Environmental and socio-economic aspects
    • 4. Principles for donors of ICT equipment
    • 5. Development of national ICT policies
    • 6. Map guidance document on ICT applicable standards and legislation
    • 7. Development of a global CO2 - equivalent market
    • 8. Recovery of rare metals and green ICT supply chain
  • 10 Glossary
  • 11 Bibliography
  • 12 Annexes
    • Annex I
    • Annex II Disposal operations (Annex IV of the Basel Convention)
    • A. Operations which do not lead to the possibility of resource recovery, recycling, reclamation, direct reuse or a...
    • B. Operations which may lead to resource recovery, recycling reclamation, direct reuse or alternative uses
    • Annex III General references to the legislation, international standards and guidance documents