Rocketing sales of cell phones, gadgets, appliances in China, India, elsewhere forecast

Proper e-waste collection, recycling key to recovering valuable materials, protecting health, building new green economy

Bali, 22 February 2010 – Sales of electronic products in countries like China and India and across continents such as Africa and Latin America are set to rise sharply in the next 10 years.

And, unless action is stepped up to properly collect and recycle materials, many developing countries face the spectre of hazardous e-waste mountains with serious consequences for the environment and public health, according to UN experts in a landmark report released today by UNEP.

Issued at a meeting of Basel Convention and other world chemical authorities prior to UNEP’s Governing Council meeting in Bali, Indonesia, the report, “Recycling – from E-Waste to Resources,” used data from 11 representative developing countries to estimate current and future e-waste generation – which includes old and dilapidated desk and laptop computers, printers, mobile phones, pagers, digital photo and music devices, refrigerators, toys and televisions.

Full Article: http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=612&ArticleID=6471

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