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Life cycle extension of mobile phones: an exploration with focus on the end-consumer

The Central European Review of Economics and Management

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Title Life cycle extension of mobile phones: an exploration with focus on the end-consumer
 
Creator Penners, Odette
Semeijn, Janjaap
van Riel, Allard C.R.
Lambrechts, Wim
 
Subject waste management
end of life, e-waste, mobile phones, recycling, WEEE
Q01, Q53, Q56
 
Description 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 end-consumers 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.
 
Publisher WSB University in Wroclaw Publishing Department
 
Contributor —
 
Date 2018-12-22
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Scientific Article
Artykuł naukowy
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.wsb.wroclaw.pl/index.php/WSBRJ/article/view/723
10.29015/cerem.723
 
Source The Central European Review of Economics and Management; Vol 2, No 4 (2018); 7-37
The Central European Review of Economics and Management; Vol 2, No 4 (2018); 7-37
2544-0365
2543-9472
 
Language eng
 
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