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ASIA & THE PACIFIC: GREEDY FOR ELECTRONICS

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

Electronic equipment use is experiencing unprecedented growth in consumption in Asia and the Pacific. This has made e-waste as an emerging environmental issue in the region:

1995–2000: the number of TV sets/100 people in India and China increased 28% and 17% respectively. During the same period, in developed markets such as the UK and USA, the growth was just 7% and 10% respectively.

1995–2002: the number of PCs/100 people in China jumped a massive 746%, while in the USA, the increase was much smaller at 91%.

In 2001, Japan discarded 80,000 tons of old and obsolete computers: this is the weight of 4.5 million desktop computers.

1996–2002: the total number of mobile phone in Asia has increased from nearly 45 million to over 420 million.

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