E-waste seen from a global perspective

Abstract This chapter analyzes how much the e-waste problem is hindering the realization of sustainable societies and is therefore addressed by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. It looks at the progress of ongoing and already completed initiatives such as Solving the E-waste Problem, Partnership for Action on Computing Equipment, further work by the UN as it attempts to harmonize its e-waste work, and other umbrellas such as the European Union, and it looks at how well these initiatives have addressed the e-waste problem and its multiple dimensions. Addressing the problem is also a way to describe the way ahead toward reaching a vision for handling the e-waste problem.

• Publication year

  2019

• Venue

  Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Handbook

• Publication date

  Unknown publication date

• Fields of study

  Political Science, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/B978-0-08-102158-3.00001-X
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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