PROCESS OF IMPROVING POST CELLULAR COMPONENTS - REVERSE LOGISTICS CONSUMPTION

Abstract

Technological advances have provided economic growth and improved people's lives in several ways, however the growing dependence on these products has created an environmental challenge such as a large generation of post-consumer waste (EEE). The life cycle of this type of equipment is increasingly shorter, given the rapid technological evolution of the last few decades, which ends up accelerating the obsolescence process of this equipment, making it easily become a post-consumer product. This article aims to investigate actions that are part of the post-consumer cellphone processing process and compares the components of conventional cell phones and smartphone-type devices, through physical dismantling and identification of constituent materials of both types of mobile devices. The study methodology consists of performing a disassembly process, as well as dematerialization and segregation of each component of post-consumer cell phones, investigating the beneficiation process to take the paths of reverse logistics, that is, making it essential for new materials not to be extracted in order to value components in which these devices are built, addressing the issue of inclusion of cooperatives and their collaborators.
As a result, obtained based on the analysis of the composition of the two types of devices, it can be concluded that there were significant changes in mass due to technological evolution and the design combined with new features in the most modern devices, it was evident in the difference in mass, there was a difference in mass. greater similarity in the average value in grams of mass in the carcass where the conventional 23.06% and in the Smartphones was 22.21%, in the displays there was also a significant difference where it was obtained in the conventional cell phones 7.91% and in the Smartphones 17.61%, this was due to the fact that Smartphones have a touch screen and larger size than conventional devices these results demonstrate the importance of reverse logistics.