The Sustainability Potential Analysis On The Third-Party Take-back Mode Of E-waste

Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology and the swift changes in the world economic order and patterns, the sustainable development (SD) has become an important issue, which draws general concern of the international community. However, accompanying with the rapid development of science and technology, electronic waste (e-waste) problem and opportunity is emerging.As we all know, the e-waste has both toxic and valuable materials. At present, the resource recovery technology of e-waste is very mature. But the management system of e-waste is confusing; there is lack of recycle system in our country. The company with professional recycle system is often at a disadvantage position in the competition since they can not get enough production materials. How to establish a reasonable mode of e-waste which can achieve the purpose of sustainable development of the environment, economy and society and how to assess the SD of the mode seem imminent.Many countries take actions to manage the e-waste, and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) is widely accepted and used. This paper establish a economical and feasible mode of e-waste based on EPR, from the third-party recycle company called Product Responsibility Provider (PRP)'s perspective. And then in accordance with the method of Sustainability Potential Analysis (SPA) and the characters of the third-party e-waste recycle system, assessment method of e-waste third-party take-back system based on SPA is established and the indicator system consisting of performance and efficiency, well-structuredness, interdependencies with other systems, buffer capacity and resilience and ability to accommodate inter- and intra-generative equity is construct. At the end, the coordination of reverse supply chain is researched based on SD performance which can make the SD actualize in the e-waste reverse supply chain.