Department of Environmental Technology Management, College of Life Sciences, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2017 Dec;24(35):27160-27174. doi: 10.1007/s11356-017-0190-0. Epub 2017 Sep 30.
The present work assesses the production rate of cell phone e-waste in Kuwait by comparing the number of clients in three telecommunication service providers like Zain, Ooredoo, and Viva in the state of Kuwait over a period of 7 years from 2008 to 2015. An online survey was conducted to evaluate the growth in the number of clients in three cell phone companies, and the data analysis was carried out using statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS) software. The prediction of the growth percentage of the number of clients in each telecommunication company was analyzed using analysis of variance (ANOVA) test and followed by the regression model. The study shows that there is an increase in the number of clients in all three companies (Zain, Ooredoo, and Viva) between year 2008 and 2015, and it was estimated that approximately 7.9 million cell phone users would be achieved in the first quarter of 2015. Based on this predicted number of cell phone users, the production of e-waste would be 3 kt per year with an average growth of 12.7%.
本研究通过比较科威特三家电信服务提供商（Zain、Ooredoo 和 Viva）在 2008 年至 2015 年 7 年间的客户数量，评估了科威特手机电子垃圾的产生率。我们进行了一项在线调查，以评估这三家手机公司客户数量的增长情况，并使用社会科学统计软件包（SPSS）对数据进行了分析。我们使用方差分析（ANOVA）检验分析了每家电信公司客户数量增长百分比的预测，并随后进行了回归模型分析。研究表明，在 2008 年至 2015 年间，所有三家公司（Zain、Ooredoo 和 Viva）的客户数量都有所增加，预计到 2015 年第一季度，手机用户数量将达到约 790 万。根据这一预测的手机用户数量，电子垃圾的产生量将为每年 3000 吨，平均增长率为 12.7%。
