Europe cracks down on e-waste.

Europe cracks down on e-waste.

Electronic waste in Europe is growing so fast that it will double between 1998 and 2010, according to European Union documents. And in 1998 it already measured in the region of six million metric tons. The pace of its accumulation worries public officials because e-waste contains lead and other chem...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 39, 5(duplicate) (2002).
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
EU manufacturers.
European Parliament.
European Union.
Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment directive.
Computers.
E-waste.
Electronic waste.
Lead.
Recycling.
Water supplies contamination.