GLRPPR Sector Resource: E-Waste: When Landfills Are Not an Option

Title:
E-Waste: When Landfills Are Not an Option

Abstract:
Headlines abound with stories of branded technology being fished out of rivers and landfills in developing nations leaking toxic metals into the water supply. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates roughly 400,000 tons of e-waste goes to recyclers every year, and that up to 80 percent of the materials sorted for recycling end up in operations in China, India, Southeast Asia and West Africa where it is disassembled and burned or dumped.

URL:
http://www.greenercomputing.com/feature/2009/07/01/ewaste-landfills-not-an-option

Source:
Greener Computing

Resource Type:
Article/report

Date of Publication:
July 1, 2009

Associated Sectors:

• Electronic Waste