This book gives an overview of electronic waste (e-waste) management and the latest technological aspects of recycling and disposal of obsolete electronic components while minimizing the environmental impact of toxic chemicals and heavy metals from e-waste. As electronics become more accessible worldwide, this effect generates up to 50 tonnes of e-waste that is only set to increase every year. The chapters in this book explore different strategies through recycling practices, green computing, and eco-friendly approach in handling e-waste through government policies to mitigate the growing side effects of e-waste. This book caters to researchers, policymakers, and industrial practitioners who are interested in more sustainable practices in e-waste management.

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Dr. Mohammad Jawaid is currently working as Senior Fellow (Professor) at Biocomposite Technology Laboratory, Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP), Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia, and also Visiting Professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since June 2013. Dr. Mohammad Jawaid received his Ph.D. from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia. He has more than 20 years of experience in teaching, research, and industries. His area of research interests includes hybrid reinforced/filled polymer composites and advance materials. So far, he has published 55 books, 75 chapters, more than 450 peer-reviewed international journal papers, and several published review papers under top 25 hot articles in science direct during 2013-2021. He also obtained 5 Patents and 6 Copyrights. H-index and citation in Scopus are 69 and 21818, and in Google scholar, H-index and citationare 82 and 30002. He is founding Series Editor of Composite Science and Technology Book; Sustainable Materials and Technology, and Smart Nanotechnology, and also Springer Proceedings in Materials from Springer Nature. He is also International Advisory Board Member of Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials. He is Reviewer of several high impact ISI journals (200 journals). Dr. Anish Khan is currently working as Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, Center of Excellence for Advanced Materials Research (CEAMR), Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He received his Ph.D. from Aligarh Muslim University, India, in 2010. He has research experience of working in the field of synthetic polymers and organic-inorganic electrically conducting nano-composites. He has completed Postdoctoral in Electroanalytical Chemistry from School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 2010-2011. He has research and teaching experience and published more than 100 research papers in referred international journals. He attended more than 20 international conferences/workshop and has published 3 books, 6 in progress, and 12 chapters. He has completed around 20 research projects. He served as Managerial Editor of Chemical and Environmental Research (CER) Journal and Member of American Nano Society. His fields of specialization are polymer nano-composite/cation-exchanger/chemical sensor/microbiosensor/nanotechnology, application of nano-materials in electroanalytical chemistry, material chemistry, ion-exchange chromatography, and electroanalytical chemistry, dealing with the synthesis, characterization (using different analytical techniques) and derivatization of inorganic ion exchanger by the incorporation of electrically conducting polymers, preparation and characterization of hybrid nano-composite materials and their applications, polymeric inorganic cation exchange materials, electrically conducting polymeric, materials, composite material use as sensors, green chemistry by remediation of pollution, heavy metal ion selective membrane electrode, and biosensor on neurotransmitter.