At the heart of the implementation of CE at this level lies the notion of cleaner production, wherein resource reuse is encouraged and simultaneously, efforts are made to reduce the production of toxins. [...] Finally, at the macro (region/state/city) level, the idea is to combine efficient production and consumption systems to better understand the intricate material flows and develop measures to improve efficiency in the form of municipality driven collection of by products, storage, processing and distribution mechanisms (Bhattacharjiya and Kapur 2019) Since the 1980s, China has introduced a number o. [...] Over the course of the past eight 17 years, while a number of positive developments have taken place such as the emergence of PROs, expansion of formal waste management, development of indigenous technologies for processing and recovering components of e-waste, etc., the sector is still plagued by the dominance of informal players in waste management. [...] In fact, the current regulation fails to recognise the significant role played by the informal sector and needs to be altered such that the informal sector is among the key stakeholders involved in the consultative process. [...] The second is the issue of leakages of material that may occur owing to the complexity of 18 materials and the inability to separate individual components while ensuring that quality and purity remain intact.
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