E-waste management policies and consumers’ disposal: a comparative case-study between Milan and Paris

The general research aim of this doctoral thesis is to draw insights about the implementation of the WEEE directive on urban scale. In particular, the local transposition of the Directive is analysed in Milan and Paris, and the related disposal behaviour of consumers is interpreted. The overall objective of the study is emphasising the connections between the macro dimension of policies and the micro sphere of social behaviours, with a strongly policy-oriented and multidisciplinary purpose. In doing so, the research borrows theoretical tools from studies on e-waste policies, inverse management supply chains (IMSC) and environmental sociology.