Though e-waste recycling belongs to the end of life stage, it need
to solve the issues from the pespective of the whole life cycles.
Firstly, in order to recycling the e-waste more efficient, the ecodesign
and new technologies should be adopted to simplify and
normalize the structure of e-products; Secondly, new environment
friendly materials should be applied to reduce utilization of the
hazardous materials in the newe-products, which can decrease the
potential environmental and human health risk. e.g. the Directive
on the Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in
Electrical and Electronic Equipment (RoHS), whose aim is to reduce
the use of hazardous substances, such as lead, mercury, cadmium,
hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyls (PBBs), and polybrominated
diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), in electrical and electronic
products. Thirdly, source reduction is also a good way to realize the
zero waste strategy. For source reduction of e-waste, the reuse of
old products are very important. The reuse extends the lifecyle of eproducts,
and reduce the e-waste generation, which is very helpful