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Electronic waste
About: Electronic waste is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1146 publications have been published within this topic receiving 29906 citations. The topic is also known as: e-waste & e-scrap.
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TL;DR: Miniaturisation and the development of more efficient cloud computing networks, where computing services are delivered over the internet from remote locations, may offset the increase in E-waste production from global economic growth and theDevelopment of pervasive new technologies.
1,431 citations
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TL;DR: In the detailed literature survey, value distributions for different electronic waste samples were calculated, and it was showed that the major economic driver for recycling of electronic waste is from the recovery of precious metals.
1,391 citations
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TL;DR: The Basel Ban, an amendment to the Basel Convention that has not yet come into force, would go one step further by prohibiting the export of e-waste from developed to industrializing countries as discussed by the authors.
1,377 citations
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TL;DR: It is obvious that the environment is highly contaminated by these toxic chemicals derived from the recycling processes, especially on tracking the exposure pathways of different toxic chemicals which may affect the workers and local residents especially mothers, infants and children.
719 citations
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TL;DR: An overview of toxic substances present in e-waste, their potential environmental and human health impacts together with management strategies currently being used in certain countries are presented.
618 citations