Science, Maths & Technology
How much electronic waste do we generate as a species?
...produced, on average, more than 18 kilograms of e-waste per person, those of Afghanistan or Nepal hardly produced any. There is little information on the fate of discarded equipment and, according to the study, only 20 per cent of e-waste is “documented to be collected and properly recycled”. This article originally appeared in SciDevNet under a CC-BY licence...