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P. Kopacek, B. Kopacek:
"Economy of Disassembly";
Elsevier ScienceDirect IFAC-PapersOnLine, 50 (2017), 1; 5161 - 5165.

There are three basic strategies in End-of-Life Management (the "3-R" possibilities): Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Additionally, "Recover" can be added to enhance the method to a "4-R" theory: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Recover. Recover describes the energy recovery from the waste stream. This possibility should not be left out. As the fifth and last option, the strategy landfill is mentioned. This is not an EoL option in the narrow sense, but it is still very important in waste treatment nowadays.
There exist some early approaches in the literature to support the decision for a special EoL strategy but they are mostly applicable only in a narrow specialized field. Therefore in the following a simple and practicable method will be introduced.
The new method evaluates from the technological side the different devices regarding their profitability. For this analysis 8-10 important criteria, depending from devices, are chosen for a quantitative rating.
After a first trial with robotics, the efficiency and universality of this new approach is demonstrated on automation devices and solar panels based on own research.

EoL, Ressources Efficiency,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.787