E-Waste Creates Economic, Environmental Problem for Developing Nations
Societies are producing more and more electronic goods, and therefore more and more
electronic waste posing health hazards to residents
E-Waste these high-
technology goods not only are bulky they often contain toxic materials such as lead and mercury. The Basel Convention is an international agreement setting global guidelines on handling e-waste and The United States, the single largest producer of e-waste, has never ratified the convention. Also, e-waste has become a highly profitable illegal trade.,instead of being treated or recycled
E-waste used to be produced by developed nations and then dumped in poor countries. But today poor countries without recycling capacity export their e- waste to nations like China.