Review on Dilemmas and Collaborative Governance Paths of Reverse Recycling of Waste Electronic Products in the “Internet +” Era

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10.2991/978-94-6239-830-6_32How to use a DOI?

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Internet + Recycling; Reverse Logistics; Waste Electronic Products

Abstract

The scale of waste electronic products has been continuously climbing and has entered a peak period with an annual exceeding 50 million units and an annual growth rate of 20%. The toxic substances such as lead, cadmium, and mercury contained in them pose a severe threat to the ecological environment and public health. However, the coverage rate of the formal recycling channels is less than 10%, and a large number of products flow to the informal disassembly links, highlighting the structural defects of the traditional recycling system in terms of professionalism and scale. The “Internet +” recycling model provides a technically feasible path to solve the three obstacles of “unsmooth channels, insufficient trust, and weak incentives” through mechanisms such as online appointment, door-to-door pick-up, and time-space integration. This paper comprehensively review the realistic tensions in the implementation process of this model: on the one hand, although residents generally recognize the environmental risks and resource values, the actual participation rate is only 7%. The root cause is the disconnection between the concerns about personal information security and behavioral habits; on the other hand, the platform operation faces bottlenecks such as difficult profitability, weak supervision, and narrow coverage. Problems such as a single incentive structure, ambiguous main body responsibilities and rights, and fragmented policy implementation lead to an exacerbation of the supply-demand mismatch. On this basis, this paper further integrates frontier methods such as game theory modeling, multi-objective dynamic pricing, and closed-loop optimization, and proposes a tripartite collaborative governance framework with strong government supervision - credible enterprise performance - differential resident response as the core, and emphasizes the rigid constraints of information security, the combination of multiple incentive tools, and the collaborative scheduling of online and offline resources as the key fulcrums of institutional reconstruction.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xinjian Yu
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/11/14
TI  - Review on Dilemmas and Collaborative Governance Paths of Reverse Recycling of Waste Electronic Products in the “Internet +” Era
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Internet Finance and Digital Economy (ICIFDE 2026)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 371
EP  - 379
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6239-830-6_32
DO  - 10.2991/978-94-6239-830-6_32
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