'E-waste': Getting grip on a growing global problem
Q: What is e-waste?
A look around a reporter’s desk turns up eight items that will end up as e-waste one day: a printer, keyboard, computer screen, laptop, mouse, and phone charger, as well as mobile and landline phones. And a swivel of the desk chair brings into view a digital camera, television, and cable TV box.
E-waste is an informal name for what is also called waste electrical and electronic equipment, or WEEE for short.