The complexity of managing electrical and electronic waste (e-waste) prompted the need to evaluate the environmental performance of current e-waste management in Malaysia, focusing on future monitoring and planning. In this study, the environmental performance of four management options was evaluated based on the infrastructure currently available in Malaysia. Those options include 1) landfill disposal, 2) direct incineration with energy recovery, 3) materials recovery without energy recovery, and 4) materials recovery with energy recovery. These alternatives were evaluated using life cycle assessment (LCA) and material flow analysis (MFA). Two simple performance indicators, waste reduction rate (WRR) and environmental cost-benefit ratio (eCBR), were developed to interpret the study findings. Due to the lack of sufficient data on-site e-waste management and recycling in Malaysia, information from a variety of sources was utilized. Moreover, the focus of this study was limited to one specific type of e-waste – the printed wire board (PWB) from mobile phone. Surprisingly, our study concluded that direct incineration with energy recovery was the best of the four management options evaluated for e-waste management. The study results ran contrary to our initial expectations and the results of previous LCA studies on e-waste management. Because our interpretation of the study results had several limitations, recommendations were made to improve the evaluation of e-waste management and for more accurate and reliable analyses to assist in the future development of sustainable e-waste management practices. This study's findings could serve as a useful reference to the many stakeholders working to develop sustainable e-waste management in Malaysia.

电气和电子废物（电子废物）管理的复杂性促使需要评估马来西亚当前电子废物管理的环境绩效，重点是未来的监测和规划。在这项研究中，根据马来西亚目前可用的基础设施评估了四种管理方案的环境绩效。这些选择包括1）垃圾填埋处理，2）能量回收直接焚烧，3）没有能量回收的材料回收，以及4）能量回收的材料回收。使用生命周期评估（LCA）和物料流分析（MFA）对这些替代方案进行了评估。开发了两个简单的性能指标，即废物减少率（WRR）和环境成本效益比（eCBR）来解释研究结果。由于马来西亚缺乏足够的现场电子废物管理和回收数据，因此利用了来自各种来源的信息。此外，这项研究的重点仅限于一种特定类型的电子垃圾-手机的印刷线路板（PWB）。令人惊讶的是，我们的研究得出的结论是，直接焚烧与能量回收是评估电子废物管理的四种管理方案中的最佳方案。该研究结果与我们最初的预期和先前的LCA关于电子废物管理的研究结果背道而驰。由于我们对研究结果的解释存在一些局限性，因此提出了一些建议，以改善对电子废物管理的评估，并提出更准确和可靠的分析方法，以帮助未来发展可持续的电子废物管理方法。这项研究'