Archive for the ‘Electronic Waste’ Category
UNEP Report Urges E-Waste Action, Focuses on China
A new UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report – Recycling – from E-waste to Resources (pdf) – identifies the growing problem of e-waste internationally. Includes is the finding that, by 2020, computer related e-waste will be four times 2007 levels. More noteworthy still, is that developing countries – namely, India and China – will be the largest depositories for e-waste.
China Diverting Toxic Waste to North Korea, Emerging Information Suggests
China has taken considerable steps in recent years to address electronic waste management practices unsafe for the individuals involved and harmful to local land and water supplies, as NEEDigest has previously reported.
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Outsourcing Toxic Dumping, in the Name of the Environment?
Does the Obama administration have the will to face the prospect that a low cost approach might be inimical to a low carbon strategy, and ensure careful planning and responsible oversight? Or will US officials, keen on building a strong bilateral partnership, overlook the consequences of a business-as-usual scenario in China, permitting environmental degradation as the means to ambitious political ends?
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