Mobile Consumption and Disposal in Chennai Metropolitan Region India (2017 Naveed Ahmed, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany)
This short analysis of "e-waste" phones in the rapidly emerging market of Chennai (Tamil Nadu), India, is the kind of abstract approach that could make a good model for other products and other cities.
Once again, it shows the "circular economy" is heliocentric, and does not revolve around Europe. Telephones sold to families in India (4 phones average per household in Chennai) are not thrown into the sea. The secondary market is not "competing against" the legitimate scrap market.
Instead, Naveed shows the issue is reluctance to let go of devices. When people remember the purchase as a great sacrifice, they hesitate to believe it is eventually worth only the sum of its raw materials. This leads to the same "hoarding" documented by Massachusetts DEP in the 1990s.
Instead, Naveed shows the issue is reluctance to let go of devices. When people remember the purchase as a great sacrifice, they hesitate to believe it is eventually worth only the sum of its raw materials. This leads to the same "hoarding" documented by Massachusetts DEP in the 1990s.
