Managing Electronic Waste: Issues with Exporting E-Waste Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Managing Electronic Waste: Issues with Exporting E-Waste

Creator

  • Author: Luther, Linda
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Analyst in Environmental Policy

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 2010-09-27

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Electronic waste (e-waste) is a term that is used loosely to refer to obsolete, broken, or irreparable electronic devices like televisions, computer central processing units (CPUs), and computer monitors. There are various issues of concern with regard to e-waste disposal and recycling. This report looks at issues specifically related to its export for recycling. Particularly, it discusses documented impacts to human health and the environment that have been tied to unsafe recycling practices in developing countries, as well as issues that have motivated certain stakeholders to divert e-waste from landfill disposal and, hence, increase recycling. It also provides an overview of various factors necessary to understand why e-waste disposal has become a concern in the United States, and it also discusses waste management requirements in the United States.
  • Physical Description: 13 pages.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Technology
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Electronics
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Business
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Electronics industry
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Computers
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Televisions
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Solid wastes
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Recycling of waste products
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Waste products
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Scrap metal recycling
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Recycling industry

Coverage

  • Place Name: United States

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: R40850
  • Accession or Local Control No: R40850_2010Sep27
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc31346
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