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source: www.ewaste.ch/facts_and_
figures/statistical

www.findarticles.com/p/articles/
mi_m0CYQ/is_12_33/ai_95645943

UNEP, ‘E-waste in Asia and the Pacific’, June 2004,
www.icteap.org/events/
e-waste/bgpaperdoc.pdf

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E-waste has become one of the world's fastest growing and most toxic waste streams…

According to the .Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the USA generates more e-waste than any other nation in the world.

E-waste production in selected countries(1):
 total
(000) tons/year		per capita year
kg/year		 
USA 2,1247.332000
Germany1,089 13.41 2005(2)
UK 91513.411998
Denmark118-1997
Japan(3) 80-2001
Canada67-2005(2)
Switzerland66 9.05 2003
Thailand60-2003
Taiwan14-2003


(1) The table below gives only an overview of the quantities of e-waste generated in different countries. It is difficult to make direct country-to-country comparisons regarding e-waste quantities, because each country has as different categories of appliances counted in e-waste and different methodologies of estimation.
(2) Reported data are estimations.
(3) Data refer only to PC waste.
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