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A spreadsheet-based decision support tool to assist small and medium-sized e-waste and lithium-ion battery recyclers for economic assessment

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  • M. Kiran
  • S. Prasanna Venkatesan

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In many developing countries, including India, informal e-waste recyclers offer competitive prices as compared to formal recyclers. To manage this price competition, the small and medium-sized formal recyclers store the collected e-waste until the required volume is sourced for economical processing. Typically, the recyclers rely on their personal experience to decide the required volume for economical processing, albeit e-waste recycling is a relatively new business. The contributions of this research are: 1) to identify the factors that affect economic recycling of e-waste/lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) through literature and interactions with formal e-waste recyclers in India; 2) to develop and illustrate a simple, inexpensive, and easy to use open source decision support tool in Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to assist the formal recyclers in the economic assessment of e-waste/LIBs to maximise profit. The developed tool consists of three modules: 1) user interface; 2) data storage worksheets; 3) optimiser.

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  • M. Kiran & S. Prasanna Venkatesan, 2025. "A spreadsheet-based decision support tool to assist small and medium-sized e-waste and lithium-ion battery recyclers for economic assessment," International Journal of Business Information Systems, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 50(3), pages 294-311.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbisy:v:50:y:2025:i:3:p:294-311
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