In 2008, over 280 million handsets
were sold in just the first quarter, which suggests that global
sales doubled within those 5 years [2]. This outstanding
market success, together with the short average lifetime of
cell phones, made them a target of environmental activism,
policy, and research, even though cell phones are just one
example of the ever increasing array of electronic products.
The corresponding rising tide of waste electrical and
electronic equipment (WEEE) is increasingly subject to
environmental scrutiny and policy based on extended producer
responsibility, such as the European WEEE Directive or
California’s Assembly Bill AB 2901 [3, 4].