3.2. Waste office equipment generation
After only a few years of service, large numbers of printers reach
their end of lifetime, resulting in potential environmental problems.
It is difficult to estimate how much e-waste has been
generated from printers, because they are discarded by millions of
enterprises and families, and no official data are available. It is,
however, essential to predict the waste printer volume, for waste
management and recycling. Here, the volume will be estimated
using our selected method (the Stanford Method) and our survey
data.