Electronic Junk: Best Practice of Recycling and Production Forecast Case Study in Brazil

Abstract

The concern with the disposal of waste generated by industry as well as by households is not recent. This work has sought to make a review on the production and disposal of the waste generated by electrical and electronic products, such as computers and mobile phones. Also, this review aimed to characterize the components of such waste and investigate the effectiveness of current methods of waste treatment. In addition, a tool is proposed to predict the production of computers in Brazil through the statistical method of autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models, which suggested the model ARIMA (0, 0, 1) to carry out the forecast. With this model, it was possible to suggest that the production of computers in Brazil, due to the global economic crisis, should continue to decrease.