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The global market for electrical and electronic equipment continuesto expand, while the lifespan of many products becomes shorter. Consequently, the waste stream of obsolete electrical and electronic products, commonly called “e-waste”, is also vast and growing, with estimates of 20-50 million tonnes per year being generated worldwide. Many of the products contain numerous hazardous chemicals and materials, and therefore the recycling and disposal of e-waste poses a threat to the environment and to human health. Click here to download the report |
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Ghana — The latest place where we have discovered high tech toxic trash causing horrendous pollution is in Ghana. Our analysis of samples taken from two electronic waste (e-waste) scrap yards in Ghana has revealed severe contamination with hazardous chemicals. Click here to download the report |
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Greenpeace is challenging manufacturers of electronic goods to
take responsibility for the entire lifecycle of their products, from
production, through manufacture and to the very end of their
products’ lives. Only in this way can we ensure that the dangerous
tide of toxic e-waste can be stemmed, and that the hidden flow of
e-waste does not become a problem in anybody’s backyard. Click here to download the report |
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Recycling of electronics devices is one way of reducing environmental
hazards associated with early production stages. However, recycling
in this case is not the whole solution; because of hazardous
chemicals currently being used in the manufacture of electronics
products, recycling can bring its own problems.Click here to download the report. |
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India’s e-waste generation poses an environmental and public health crisis and Greenpeace demands that both the industry and the government take urgent steps to design out toxics and solve the e-waste crisis. A briefing paper on the e-waste scenario in India. Click here to download the report |
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China’s electronic sector has grown at a phenomenal rate. There are lessons that India can learn from the Chinese experience with e-waste and the legislation it is using to design out toxics. Click here to download the report. |
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Extended Producer Responsibility in a non-OECD context: The management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment in India. This report tests how the principle of EPR for e-waste can be applied effectively in countries outside the OECD. Click here to download the report.
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A report on the recycling of electronic wastes in China and India and the resultant workplace and environmental contamination. Click here to download the report.
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HCL is the market leader in Indian manufactured computers. Yet this scientific analysis of hazardous substances in an HCL laptop shows that it lags far behind global companies in terms of its phase-out of toxics. Click here to download the report.
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