This review provides an overview of the risk that e-wastes poses to human and environmental health from recycling and landfill disposals together with tools for the management of such wastes. Human toxicity of hazardous substances in e-waste is based on published case studies from e-waste recycling in China, India and Ghana.waste management systems in cities in developing countries. An examination of the publications from 2005 to 2011, from two of the major scientific journals, related to waste management, Waste Management Journal and Waste Management and Research, 37 showed information related to factors affecting the system. Surprisingly, few gave quantitative information.
This research has the aim to determine the stakeholders that have an interest in the waste management system of cities under study and the factors that influence the performance of the system in three continents, from more than thirty urban areas in twenty two developing countries