- Electronic waste
includes computers, entertainment electronics, mobile phones and other
items that have been discarded by their original users. While there is
no generally accepted definition of electronic waste, in most cases
electronic waste consists of electronic products that were used for data
processing, telecommunications, or entertainment in private households
and businesses that are now considered obsolete, broken, or irreparable.
- Despite its common
classification as a waste, disposed electronics are a considerable
category of secondary resource due to their significant suitability for
direct reuse (for example, many fully functional computers and
components are discarded during upgrades), refurbishing, and material
recycling of its constituent raw materials (listed below). Re
conceptualization of electronic waste as a resource thus preempts its
potentially hazardous qualities.
- Electronic waste
processing systems have matured in recent years following increased
regulatory, public, and commercial scrutiny, and a commensurate increase
in entrepreneurial interest. Part of this evolution has involved greater
diversion of electronic waste from energy intensive, down-cycling
processes (eg. conventional recycling) where equipment is reverted to a
raw material form.
- This diversion is
achieved through reuse and refurbishing. The environmental and social
benefits of reuse are several: diminished demand for new products and
their commensurate requirement for virgin raw materials (with their own
environmental externalities not factored into the cost of the raw
materials) and larger quantities of pure water and electricity for
associated manufacturing, less packaging per unit, availability of
technology to wider swaths of society due to greater affordability of
products, and diminished use of landfills.
- Some states in the US
developed policies banning CRTs from landfills. Some e-waste processing
is carried out within the US. The processing may be dismantling into
metals, plastics and circuit boards or shredding of whole appliances.
From the state of California introduced a Electronic Waste
Recycling Fee on all new monitors and televisions sold to cover the cost
of recycling.
- The amount of
the fee depends on the size of the monitor. Canada has also begun to
take responsibility for electronics recycling. For example, in
California was added to the cost of purchasing new televisions,
computers, and computer components in British Columbia. The new
legislation made recycling mandatory for all of those products.
- The world is set to
generate 40 million metric tons of electronic waste (e waste) this year,
enough to fill a line of trucks stretching halfway around the world. E
waste is rising three times faster than other forms of waste.
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Waste Management Inc.,
which has several facilities around the country dedicated to the de
manufacturing of collected end-of-life electronic equipment, likewise
believes that price can not be a factor in cities' decisions about how
to handle their collected materials, particularly at this point in the
development of the e-waste market.
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E-waste is consumer and
business electronic equipment that is near or at the end of its useful
life. Certain components of electronic products contain materials that
render them hazardous, and include heavy metals such as lead, cadmium,
mercury and arsenic. Many of these elements are extremely valuable, such
as gold and platinum, while the majority of them are non-renewable.
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General
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E-Waste
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Electronic Waste
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Electronic Product Management
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Solid Waste Fact
Sheet
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Free Computer Recycling
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Electronic Waste
FAQ
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Commonly Asked Questions
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Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
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Video clip
Process
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Recycling Process
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Recycling E-waste in Chile
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Our Recycle Process
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Process Of Recycle
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Recycling Debate
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Electronic Waste - Recycling Services
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The Electronics Recycling Process
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E-waste
processing in the informal sector
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Electronic Waste Recycling
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A True Closed Loop Recycling Process
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E Tech Recycling
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Business Model & Process
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Cell Phone
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Cell Phone Recycling
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Computers
Company Profile
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Australian Recycling
company
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Company In USA
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Company In
Austin
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Company In
New York
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Company In India
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Company In Scotland
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Company In North America
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Company In Levittown
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Company In UK
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Company In Penang
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Company In India
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Company In Atlanta
Consultants
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Consultants In America
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Consultants In Canada
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Consultants In India
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Consultants In Indiana
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Consultants In US
Market
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Apple And The Environment
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Status Of E Waste Management
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E-Waste
The World’s Fastest Growing Waste Problem
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China Becomes Prime
Global Victim of "E-waste"
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Ict Sector
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E waste & Trade
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EU Ban Opens E-Waste Market
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E waste
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E-Waste
Problem
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Tapping e-waste
business
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The cost of e-waste
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E Waste Trade Value Chain
Management
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Integrated Waste Management Board
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Electronic
Waste Management Activities
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E-waste Management Policy
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E-waste Management and Pollution Prevention
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IT Waste Management In Canada
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E Waste Policy Issues
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E-Waste Policy for India
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Creation
Of Optimum Knowledge Bank For efficient E Waste
Hazards
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E-waste hazards
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E-waste hazards in China
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E-waste Report
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Electronic Hazardous Waste
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Recycling Of Electronic Waste
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Electronic Waste Is A Social &
Global Issue.
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E Waste Solutions
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Toxic Tech
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WEEE
Hazards
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China's E waste
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Technology
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CRT Recycling system
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CRT Monitor Processing
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CRT Recycling system &
Equipments
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CRT Recycling Machine
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Innovation in
e-waste from beginning to end of life
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Momentum builds for ‘revolution’ to
recycle electronic waste
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Reuse and
Green Your Network
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States
Adopt E-Waste Legislation
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There is a new
trend in trash - ‘e-waste’
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New Material Development Key to Successful
Electronic Waste Recovery
Product
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Supreme Computer & Recycling
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E Waste Products
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Trishyiraya Recycling
Patent
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Continuous adiabatic process
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Methods for Deployment & Recycling
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Streams Of E waste
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Thermionic Reactor
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Method and apparatus for striping a tire sidewall
Project
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An Indian
Perspective
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Project Coverage :
required details
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Cell Phone recycling -
Feasibility
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E-Waste - India Report
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India - Sweden :
Comparison
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E Waste Inventory
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E-Waste Recycling
Assessment
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E Waste Product Life Cycle
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Project - Case Study
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E-Waste, Project
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Conceptual Business Plan
For an Electronic Product Stewardship
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E-Waste
Channels
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E-waste Projects
Under the Basel Convention
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Electronic Waste Management
Report
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The mechanics of e-waste recycling
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Electronic Waste
Recycling Collection
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Environmental Technology Council
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Recycling E-Waste
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New E-Waste
Recycling Laws
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Dumping ground for e-waste
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E-waste crisis
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The Issues
Surrounding this Hot Recycling Topic
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Electronic Waste
Recycling Rules Go Into Effect
- Electronic Waste recycling
development
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Computer Recycling
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Electronic Waste
Recycling Trial
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The E-Waste Tsunami
Rules & Regulations
- E-waste rules driving change in
United States
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Electronic Waste
Recycling Promotion
- E-Waste
Regulations
- Addition Of
Rules
- Indian rules
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Connecticut
Recyclers Coalition Supports Shared Responsibility for E-Waste
Recycling
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Waste rules affect global market
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Electronics Waste
- Recycling for
the Next Generation
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New
rules target dangerous e-waste
Pollution Control
- Perspectives
of Electronic Waste Management
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E Waste
Management
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Draft Guidelines for
Environmentally Sound
Management of Electronic Waste
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E-waste, a major threat to
environment
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Air
Pollution Control Board
- Electronic waste
Guidelines
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Consumer's Guide To Electronics Recycle
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Electronic Waste Guide
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Guidelines
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International activities on E-waste and guidelines for future work
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E Waste
Guidelines
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Guidelines
for Developing Activities
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Electronic Waste
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