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Empowering the Circular Economy and E-waste Management: A Business Intelligence Solution to support E-waste Management in Portugal
| Resumo: | Given society’s “take-make-waste” philosophy and fast consumption pattern with very short product longevity, e-waste has become the world’s fastest growing waste stream that, with current (mis-) management practices, puts great threats to biodiversity, climate change goals, and the future supply of scarce resources. At the same time, most of the e-waste that is generated globally remains undocumented. Portugal, like most other EU members, has failed to reach the EU collection and recycling targets over the last years. The reports published by the three organizations entitled to manage e-waste in Portugal are scattered and very static and do not present evidence of the current pitfalls and limitations. The proposed BI solution uses current e-waste data from the e-waste management company Electrão to create visualizations in Power-BI that can support and increase the quality of the decision-making process. A review of the complexities of e-waste management and EU legislation are crucial to understanding the underlying criteria for such a tool. The final artifact is evaluated regarding its utility and current (data) limitations. Finally, an outlook assesses the tool within the CE (Circular Economy) Smart framework and discusses the future of e-waste management concerning potential data collection. |
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| Autores principais: | Heinrich, Ann-Kathrin |
| Assunto: | Business Intelligence Business Analytics Capacilities E-waste Management Circular Economy Microsoft Power-BI |
| Ano: | 2023 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade Nova de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Repositório Institucional da UNL |
| Resumo: | Given society’s “take-make-waste” philosophy and fast consumption pattern with very short product longevity, e-waste has become the world’s fastest growing waste stream that, with current (mis-) management practices, puts great threats to biodiversity, climate change goals, and the future supply of scarce resources. At the same time, most of the e-waste that is generated globally remains undocumented. Portugal, like most other EU members, has failed to reach the EU collection and recycling targets over the last years. The reports published by the three organizations entitled to manage e-waste in Portugal are scattered and very static and do not present evidence of the current pitfalls and limitations. The proposed BI solution uses current e-waste data from the e-waste management company Electrão to create visualizations in Power-BI that can support and increase the quality of the decision-making process. A review of the complexities of e-waste management and EU legislation are crucial to understanding the underlying criteria for such a tool. The final artifact is evaluated regarding its utility and current (data) limitations. Finally, an outlook assesses the tool within the CE (Circular Economy) Smart framework and discusses the future of e-waste management concerning potential data collection. |
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