Mapping international flows of electronic waste
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
International Electronic Journal of Medicine
International Electronic Journal of Medicine (IEJM) is an open access electronic journal that covers all aspects of medicine and medical sciences. We invite authors from all over the world to send their manuscripts to IEJM. Manuscripts submitted to IEJM go through a peer review process before publication in IEJM. We will ask our reviewers to finish the papers’ review within two weeks. Authors a...
متن کاملElectronic waste (e-waste): material flows and management practices in Nigeria.
The growth in electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) production and consumption has been exponential in the last two decades. This has been as a result of the rapid changes in equipment features and capabilities, decrease in prices, and the growth in internet use. This creates a large volume of waste stream of obsolete electrical and electronic devices (e-waste) in developed countries. There...
متن کاملShifting Mountains of Electronic Waste
Local users are now the main source of electronic waste in Africa, but illegal imports of old computers, televisions, and other electronics devices from Europe, Asia, and North America still make their way there. That's the finding of Where Are WEEE in Africa?, a new United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) report about waste electronic and electrical A large portion of these imports are of ...
متن کاملBrominated flame retardants in waste electrical and electronic equipment: substance flows in a recycling plant.
Brominated flame retardants (BFRs) are synthetic additives mainly used in electrical and electronic appliances and in construction materials. The properties of some BFRs are typical for persistent organic pollutants, and certain BFRs, in particular some polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) congeners and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), are suspected to cause adverse health effects. Global consump...
متن کاملinternational electronic journal of medicine
international electronic journal of medicine (iejm) is an open access electronic journal that covers all aspects of medicine and medical sciences. we invite authors from all over the world to send their manuscripts to iejm. manuscripts submitted to iejm go through a peer review process before publication in iejm. we will ask our reviewers to finish the papers’ review within two weeks. authors a...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Canadian Geographer / Le Géographe canadien
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0008-3658
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2009.00279.x