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Title: | Life cycle extension of mobile phones: an exploration with focus on the end-consumer | Authors: | Penners, Odette Semeijn, Janjaap VAN RIEL, Allard Lambrechts, Wim |
Issue Date: | 2018 | Source: | The Central European Review of Economics and Management, 2(4), p. 7-37 | Abstract: | Aim: All mobile phones will eventually become obsolete and should be collected and recycled in order to recover their high content of both dangerous and valuable materials. End-consumers play a key role in these processes as the collection and recycle systems cannot work properly without their contribution. Therefore, this exploratory study investigates how Dutch end-consumers can be stimulated to return their used mobile phones. Design / Research methods: the factors influencing consumers’ propensity to return and recycle obsolete mobile phones are examined. The results are based on a survey conducted among endconsumers of mobile phones in the Netherlands. Conclusions / findings: There is significant recycling potential as the majority of used mobile phones are simply kept at home. Keeping a used phone as a spare phone and being afraid of privacy disclosures are indicated as main reasons for not taking used phones to a recycling point. Originality / value of the article: The findings indicate that personal satisfaction from recycling and knowledge or awareness of the potential dangers from not properly returning play a crucial role in influencing the propensity. | Keywords: | end of life; e-waste; mobile phones; recycling; WEEE | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/28078 | ISSN: | 2543-9472 | DOI: | 10.29015/cerem.723 | Rights: | Copyright by Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa we Wrocławiu | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | vabb 2020 |
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