Decision making on E-waste management methods using minimization of regret with interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets

Abstract

In this era of technology, the markets of electronic appliances are flooded with new products which make the existing obsolete and stimulate the customers to become the users of the recent electronic devices. The life of mankind on this earth is highly integrated with certain inevitable gadgets and it has to be updated periodically for sustaining the sustenance. The high replacement rate of these electronic products contributes to the accumulation rate of E-waste at global level. The alarms of environmental conservation have fostered the nations worldwide to monitor the management of E-waste through stern legislations. The impact of imposing such canons have made the industries to adopt several methods of managing E-waste and this is the root of chaos in the decision making process on compatible methods of waste management. To derive an optimal solution, the method of minimization of regret with inter-valued intuitionistic fuzzy sets is used to design a decision making model. The proposed model will lend a helping hand to the decision makers in handling the hurdles of ambiguity.