Take-back system

A take-back system or simply takeback is one of the primary channels of waste collection, especially for e-waste, besides municipal sites.

[4] "The programs benefit municipalities by lowering their overall waste disposal costs and reducing the burden on landfill sites".

The take-back system encourages businesses to redesign their products into ones that are easily recyclable, reducing the burden that virgin materials have on the environment for the present and the future.

[2] The other major option of the take-back system includes the store retailers or producers taking back their products in order to create new ones.

[7] In Wisconsin, the development of a take-back system created many new jobs, started a few companies, and had brought revenue from e-waste processing.

The system gives the responsibility of handling waste to the producer, meaning that they are to guarantee that their products are dealt with when they are at the end of their lives.

[10] Due to a high cost in recycling but low amount of customer incentive, companies and countries refrain from adapting a take-back system.

[11] "Initiatives refer to programs or schemes required to promote effective collection, recycling and disposal of e-waste".

[6] Without the appropriate subsidies, in some cases it becomes more beneficial for a company to use virgin materials as opposed to recycling methods as it is cheaper, swaying some away from the take-back system.