The United Nations Environment Programme fears that an anticipated rise in electronics sales in developing nations will mean exponentially increasing amounts of hazardous e-waste from sources such as old PCs, mobile phones and televisions. A UNEP report calls on countries to turn a challenge into an opportunity.
– As electronics sales in China,
India and large
portions of Africa and Latin America
are expected to rise dramatically over the next 10 years, UNEP (the United Nations Environment Programme) is
fearing that the build-up of hazardous
electronic waste will increase as well.

To estimate the c…