Waste conveyance equipment in Yokohama Landmark Tower.MITSUBISHI waste evacuated transport equipment.

Export of electronics equipment waste.

Electronics equipment waste ("e-waste") includes discarded computers, computer monitors, television sets, and cell phones. Less than 10% of e-waste is currently recycled. The United States and other developed countries export e-waste primarily to Asia, knowing it carries a real harm to the poor communities where it will be discarded. A 2006 directive bans the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexa...

Brominated 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...

Challenges in legislation, recycling system and technical system of waste electrical and electronic equipment in China.

Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) has been one of the fastest growing waste streams worldwide. Effective and efficient management and treatment of WEEE has become a global problem. As one of the world's largest electronic products manufacturing and consumption countries, China plays a key role in the material life cycle of electrical and electronic equipment. Over the past 20 yea...

RoHS Substances in Mixed Plastics from Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment

With the contribution of the LIFE financial instrument of the European Community. We are grateful to the WEEE Forum and the European Community for having supported this project. A special thank goes to all those members of the WEEE Forum who provided laboratory samples. Finally, we would like to express our gratitude to the Swiss WEEE system operators SENS and SWICO, who initiated this project ...

Examining the Waste from Electr ical and Electronic Equipment Management Systems in Japan and Sweden