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WASTE

ELECTRONIC ADDICTION
BOOSTS E-WASTE

source: UNEP, ‘E-waste in Asia
and the Pacific’, June 2004,

www.icteap.org/events/e-waste/
bgpaperdoc.pdf

www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/
ppcttv2004.pdf

www.svtc.org/cleancc/pubs/
2002report.htm

One of the causes for e-waste booming is the increasing consumption of a wide range of electronic goods combined with their rapid obsolescence…

of the 6.2 billion people in the world, 1 in every 5 is a mobile telephone user, up from 1 in every 12 during 2000;

between 1970 and 1997 the number of TV sets in Asia went from 42 million to 672 million. In average TVs can often last 10 years. It means over 1 billion TV sets used in Asia during 90’s might have started to enter the waste stream already.

Personal computers in 2002…

the number of PCs in the entire world was more than 500 million with a growing rate of 11.4% annually;

the number of PCs in Asia was nearly 150 million. This was nearly 16% increase from a year before;

US purchasers bought more than 45 million new computer systems. Currently over 50% of US households own a computer.

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