Perspectives of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in Tampico, Mexico
Perspectives of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in Tampico, Mexico作者机构：Division of Postgraduate Studies and Research Faculty of Engineering “Arturo Narro Siller” Autonomous University of Tamaulipas Tamaulipas Mexico Center for Chemical Research Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo Pachuca Mexico
出 版 物：《Journal of Environmental Protection》 (环境保护（英文）)
年 卷 期：2014年第5卷第12期
页 面：1266-1276页
学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题：WEEE Management Tampico EIA
摘 要：Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has brought negative effects to the environment produced by the materials that compose them. The proper implementation of management plans of WEEE should integrate measures to prevent, mitigate and correct these affectations. As an initial step, it is necessary to make a diagnosis of the current situation of WEEE management which is the objective of this work. The studied zone was composed by the municipalities of Tampico, Ciudad Madero and Altamira located in southeast Tamaulipas, Mexico. The descriptive analysis of technical and regulatory aspects of the current management system in the study area was developed, including generation rates and analysis of waste streams. Among the main results, the generation of WEEE was estimated in 2040.38 tons/year for 2013, distributed in the municipalities of Tampico with 830.93 tons/year, Altamira with 650.18 tons/year, and Ciudad Madero with 559.27 tons/year. This calculation was estimated using Mexico’s WEEE generation indicators. The analysis of waste streams includes five categories of WEEE, Televisions with 61% of the total generation, followed by sound devices with 18%, personal computers with 17%;mobile phones with 2% as well as fixed phones with 1%. In the study area, reports of Tampico’s municipality indicated that 96 tons of WEEE was collected in the city of Tampico in 2013. In México, the national legislation considers WEEE in the category of waste requiring special handling (WRSH), however, it exists an inadequacy in the environmental laws about the specific classification of this kind of debris that makes their effective management more difficult. No companies who provide a management or treatment operations for WEEE are reported in Tampico, or in the near region. In addition, despite an initial interest for the municipality to attend the WEEE problematic, it exists a lack of sensibility of the population in the absence of environmental education programs.
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