Conceptualising Management Practices for Mapping Mobile Phone Waste Through Scientometric, Bibliometric and Visual Analytic Tools

Abstract

The global boom in the information and communications technology (ICTInformation and communication technology (ICT)) industry has exponentially accelerated the usage of mobile phones (MPs)Mobile phones (MPs). Mobile phoneMobile phones (MPs) consumers frequently update their MPsMobile phones (MPs) to meet the technology demand and keep up with new architectures, capabilities, and innovations, leading to burst volumes of MPMobile phones (MPs)wasteWaste(MPWMobile phone waste (MPW)). This study explores various MPWMobile phone waste (MPW)management practicesManagement practices. The emphasis is on MPWMobile phone waste (MPW) concepts with a particular focus on consumer knowledge and awareness level regarding MPWMobile phone waste (MPW), MPWMobile phone waste (MPW)management motivationManagement motivation, consumer attitudeConsumer attitude and willingness to pay or engage the MPWMobile phone waste (MPW) management move and hindrance factors or limitations towards MPWMobile phone waste (MPW) management habits. The data collection process employed qualitative methods. This study uses visual analyticVisual analytictoolsTools, scientometricScientometric and bibliometricBibliometric, to classify and analyse published articles from Web of Science (WoS) and Scopus databases. R version 4.2.1 software analysed all gathered data. Selected keywords were used to search for relevant articles from Scopus and WoS databases published between January 1981 and June 2022. The results from the search came out with 26510 relevant articles, of which 93 articles were chosen for detailed review regarding e-waste managementE-waste management. The bibliometricBibliometric results indicate that electronic wasteElectronic waste(e-wasteE-waste), including the MPWMobile phone waste (MPW) publications, started in 2008 and increased intensely from 2016 to 2021, with annual growth rates of 16.99% and 20.58% in WOS and Scopus, respectively. It was revealed that financial incentives are inevitable for the increased collection of MPWMobile phone waste (MPW). MPsMobile phones (MPs) also contain different precious metals worth billions of dollars that require to go for urban mining to be cheaper than virgin mining. The MPWMobile phone waste (MPW) seems to be the current world problem, and India seems to be the leading country in the move towards research for solutions and the status quo of the global MPWMobile phone waste (MPW). Additionally, MPWMobile phone waste (MPW) contains harmful and toxic materials which are dangerous to the environment and human health. These need special attention in managing them to protect the environment, which is the focus of many studies to ensure cleaner and greener production of electronic equipment. The study concluded with the conceptualised MPWMobile phone waste (MPW) management approaches.