Goal, Scope, and Outcomes of this Report: The goal of this report is to evaluate the usefulness of a case study approach to operationalising SMM policies, and to develop concrete policy recommendations for OECD member countries to improve the SMM of mobile devices with a focus on critical metals. It achieves this by identifying issues of policy incoherence, incentive structures, and market and regulatory failures at different phases of the entire life cycle of critical metals in mobile devices.
Observations and Lessons Learned: This report focused on four key policy issues: life-cycle externalities, trade policy impacts, material substitution and hazardous waste policies, and used and end-of-life mobile device management. Across these key policy issues, this report has identified the following observations relating to SMM. Click here to read more…
