The unsafe disposal of electronic wastes

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Assignment Overview

You are employed by a large electronics company that has manufacturing and assembly facilities in multiple locations in the U.S. and throughout the world.

Case Assignment

The unsafe disposal of electronic wastes generated by this company has captured the media’s attention. As a new manager of corporate health and safety for this company you are asked to make changes in their waste disposal system. For this Case Assignment: 1) Explain the environmental health and safety risks associated with the unsafe disposal of electronic wastes. 2) Apply the Ecosystem Approach described by Barrow, C. J. (1999), in Chapter 9, to describe strategies that can be used in this situation to ensure the company’s safe disposal of electronic wastes worldwide.

Assignment Expectations

Use information from your module readings/articles as well as appropriate research to support your selection.

Length: The Case Assignment should be 4-5 pages long (double-spaced).

References: At least three references must be included from academic sources (e.g., peer-reviewed journal articles). Required Reading is included. Quoted materials should not exceed 10% of the total paper (since the focus of these assignments is critical thinking). Use your own words and build on the ideas of others. Materials copied verbatim from external sources must be enclosed in quotation marks. In-text citations are required as well as a list of references at the end of the assignment. (APA format is recommended.)

Organization: Subheadings should be used to organize your paper according to the questions.

Format: APA format is recommended for this assignment.

Required Reading

Barrow, C. J. (2006). Chapter 4: Environmentalism, social sciences, economics, and environmental management. In Environmental management for sustainable development. London, GBR: Routledge.

Cunningham, T. R., Galloway-Williams, N., & Geller, E. S. (2010). Protecting the planet and its people: How do interventions to promote environmental sustainability and occupational safety and health overlap? Journal of Safety Research, 41(5), 407-416.

Gaussin, M., Hu, G., Abolghasem, S., Basu, S., Shankar, M. R., & Bidanda, B. (2013). Assessing the environmental footprint of manufactured products: A survey of current literature. International Journal of Production Economics, 146(2), 515-523.

Healey, B. J., & Walker, K. T. (2009). Chapter 5: Compliance versus prevention. In Introduction to occupational health in public health practice. Hoboken, NJ, USA: Jossey-Bass.

Kiddee, P., Naidu, R., & Wong, M. H. (2013). Electronic waste management approaches: An overview. Electronic Waste Management, 33(5), 1237-1250.

Wei, L., & Liu, Y. (2012). Present status of e-waste disposal and recycling in China. Procedia Environmental Sciences, 16, 506-514.

 
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