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Area for Inquiry Managing Pollution Waste, Waste vs pollution... - Coggle…
Area for Inquiry
Managing Pollution Waste
Theoretical Foundations
Scholars
Managing?
Pollution?
Waste?
Challenge Topic
Sustainable Development
Interventions?
3Cs
Concept
Change
Reflects shifts in disposal norms, sustainability practices, and tech lifecycles.
Expression
Identity
Power
Who controls e-waste flows, policy enforcement, and global trade decisions.
Space
Systems
E-waste management involves logistics, regulation, certification, and device lifecycle systems.
Values and ethics
Ethical dilemmas around exporting harm, CSR, and data privacy in reuse.
Content
Data
Devices contain sensitive data; reuse requires secure sanitization.
Algorithms
Computers
Main source of e-waste: desktops, laptops, mobile phones.
Networks & the Internet
Enables global coordination, tracking, and awareness of e-waste issues.
Media
Artificial Intelligence
Emerging role in optimizing recycling, predicting device failure, and automating sorting.
Robots & Autonomous
Technologies
Context
Cultural
Economic
Refurbishment and recycling industries, cost-benefit decisions, global trade.
Environmental
Central to pollution, sustainability, and resource recovery.
Health
Pollution from informal recycling harms air, water, food, and human health — especially in LEDCs.
Human knowledge
Political
Basel Convention, national regulations, and policy enforcement.
Social
Public opinion, digital inclusion, stakeholder impacts.
Waste vs pollution...