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Glossary

Take-back Centre for Waste Recovery/Take-back Centre for Electronic Waste Recovery: Place,
location, or site where electronic waste is collected and stored, in such a way that the electronic
devices may be either complete or dismantled into their components.

Mass flow diagram: Graphical representation of flows of electrical and electronic waste and
their circulation between different stakeholders. (ITU, 2021).

Scarce or critical elements: According to the Global e-waste Observatory – 2020: Quantities,
flows and potential of the Circular Economy, cobalt (Co), palladium (Pd), indium (In), germanium
(Ge), bismuth (Bi), and antimony (Sb) are scarce or critical elements present in EEE (Forti, Baldé,
Kuerh, & Bel, 2020)

Fractions: Coarse fractions are the internal and external components of WEEE; inter alia, printed
circuit boards, cables, liquid crystal glass, and plastic. Fine fractions are the elements, metals,
or materials that can be recovered; inter alia, copper, iron, gold, silver, and lead.

WEEE authorized manager: Natural or legal person, public or private, in charge of the entire
or partial management of waste.
Key performance indicators: Indicators that provide a set of reliable, relevant, objectives and
comparable indices to measure progress towards achieving a goal, objective, or level of service
(International Telecommunication Union, 2021).

Recovery target: Refers to the operationalization of an e-waste recovery function, expressed
as the quantity recovered in a period.

Basic metal: According to the Global E-waste Observatory – 2020: Quantities, flows and the
Circular Economy potential, iron (Fe), aluminum (Al), and tin (Sn).

Heavy metal: Metals with a density greater than five. Some of them are toxic, e.g., mercury (Hg),
cadmium (Cd), arsenic (As), chromium (Cr), thallium (Tl), and lead (Pb) (ITU, 2020).

Precious metal: According to the document Global E-waste Observatory – 2020: Quantities,
flows and Circular Economy potential, gold (Au), silver (Ag), copper (Cu), platinum (Pt), palladium
(Pd), ruthenium (Ru), rhodium (Rh), iridium (Ir) and osmium (Os) are considered precious metals
present in EEE (Forti, Baldé, Kuerh, & Bel, 2020).

Recycler or recycler by trade: People engaged in the informal collection of recoverable solid
waste for further sale. They are one of the key players in the country's recovery and separation
chain. (Sanabria, 2020).

Extended Producer Responsibility: Producers and importers with responsibility of the product
during its entire life cycle, including the post-industrial and post-consumer phases.

Note: The definition included in Recommendation ITU-T L.1031 is the following:

“A policy principle to promote total life cycle environmental improvements of product systems
by extending the responsibility of the manufacturers of the product to various parts of the
entire life cycle of the product and especially to the take-back, recycling, and final disposal of
the product.” (ITU, 2021)

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