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RECYCLING AND REUSE OPPORTUNITIES
FOR USED ELECTRONICS

INTRODUCTION

When we walk into most households in the U.S. today, we will find at least one television and a computer. Most businesses and other organizations now also use computers, and consider them essential to conduct business. In the past decade, technological advances in electronic and communications have improved economic growth and people’s lives in countless ways. However, the increasing usages of electronic products both at home and in the workplace have given rise to a new environmental challenge: electronic waste. A recent study in U.S shows that electronic already make up approximately 1 percent of the municipal solid waste. Also, researches completed in Europe show that electronics waste is growing at three times the rate of other municipal waste (Researchers 18). In order to protect our environment, electronics waste should be prevented, and older electronics should be reused and recycled.
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