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Briefing
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- E-Waste Growth – New report by United Nations University shows 63% growth in e-waste in East and Southeast Asia between 2010 and 2015
- Drivers – Include increasing number of products in market, expanding middle class buying more gadgets, and rapid turnover in technology as advances and fashion accelerate
- Geographic Trends – Asia extracts most volume of e-waste, while Europe and Americas generate four times as much per capita
- E-Waste Exports – Western countries export large amounts of e-waste to poorer nations that do not have infrastructure to safely recycle components
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Information Technology
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Organization
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United Nations University
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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January 15, 2017
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