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5 - Can Tails Wag the Dog?

A Hub-Driven Approach to E-Waste Reform

from Part I - Positioning E-Waste Hubs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2024

John-Michael Davis
Affiliation:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts
Yaakov Garb
Affiliation:
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
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We build on Chapter three’s description of e-waste hubs as vital economic actors, rather than simply dumping sites, and Chapter four’s account of a consensual development vision for the West Line hub, to argue for the pragmatic and ethical necessity and advantages of centering e-waste hubs in e-waste policies. Existing EPR e-waste policies, generated in the Global North and adopted globally, usually ignore informal actors and dynamics, or propose formalizing them in a way that redirects attention and resources away from the value chains and sites that have historically collected and recycled most of the world’s e-waste. A hub-centered policy would boost the effectiveness and coherence of e-waste policies by accounting for and building on their entrepreneurial agility and expertise, decentralising decisions and interventions to actors with nuanced local knowledge, greater accountability, and long-term stakes in policies that not only propose solutions in the center but grapple with existing capacities and toxic legacies in the periphery. We briefly describe the interlocked arms of the West Line model for such restructuring elaborated in the following three chapters: curbing destructive practices through local enforcement; remediating past damage; and preserving livelihoods though environmental upgrading of the recycling processes.

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Polluted Politics
The Development of an Israeli-Palestinian E-Waste Economy
, pp. 105 - 132
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Can Tails Wag the Dog?
  • John-Michael Davis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, Yaakov Garb, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
  • Book: Polluted Politics
  • Online publication: 18 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009483629.007
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  • Can Tails Wag the Dog?
  • John-Michael Davis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, Yaakov Garb, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
  • Book: Polluted Politics
  • Online publication: 18 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009483629.007
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  • Can Tails Wag the Dog?
  • John-Michael Davis, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, Yaakov Garb, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
  • Book: Polluted Politics
  • Online publication: 18 December 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009483629.007
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