Japan was the first country to enact a law specifically concerning E-waste, with the Home Appliance Recycling Law which came into force in 1998. South Korea introduced regulations on E-waste with the adoption of the Waste Deposit-Refund System in 1992 based on the Law for Promotion of Resource Saving and Reutilization (LRSR). Under this Deposit-Refund system, manufacturers of recyclable products, materials and containers are required to pay a deposit for the cost of waste recovery and processing, which is subsequently refunded once the waste has been properly collected and processed. However, this system did not distinguish E-wastes from other types of waste, such as containers and packaging. The system was reviewed in 2003, leading to the adoption of the EPR System which imposed mandatory recycling rates on 21 products including home electric and electronic appliances, containers/packaging, tires and batteries. However, this scheme also failed to distinguish E-wastes from other types of waste. From 2008, the mandatory recycling of E-wastes as well as waste vehicles was separated from the EPR System and stipulated under the Act for Resource Recycling of Home Electric Appliances and Vehicles (Figure 1).