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E-Waste Management Market

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One of the main reasons for growth of e-waste is rapid product innovation, especially in<br />

electronics and home appliances like migration from analogue to digital technologies and<br />

to flat-screen televisions and monitors. Additionally, economic growth coupled with<br />

urbanization and industrialization, and mass production of electronic goods have led to<br />

price reduction of these goods, almost doubling the universal demand for such products<br />

which eventually turn into e-waste. According to the UN, more than 33% increase in<br />

electronic waste is expected in the coming four years.<br />

Major regions across the globe generating e-waste is the United States, followed by<br />

Europe and Asia-Pacific. The average e-waste produced by the U.S. in 2012 was estimated<br />

to be about 29 kg per person. The lowest e-waste producing countries were Haiti, which<br />

generated less than 8,000 tonnes of waste in 2012, followed by Afghanistan.<br />

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Many IT and electronic goods manufacturing companies like Dell, Cisco, HP as well as<br />

multiple agencies from Switzerland, Egypt, England, China, Japan and others have joined<br />

hands with StEP (Solving the E-waste Problem), a global organization for improving e-<br />

waste disposal methods. Various other measures are being adopted to minimize e-waste,<br />

including technical intervention like product design, production process modification, use<br />

of renewable material and energy, and green packaging option. Then there is the

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