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ELECTRONIC WASTE IN THE WORLD AND IN TURKEY
E-waste (electronic waste) for use by the use of electronic goods to the completion of the waste is uncovered.
According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Organization e-waste producing countries in the world the U.S. is up. In 2000, 4.6 million tons of e-waste is buried, and this amount increased by 4 times in the next one to two years would be 20 million tons is estimated.
U.S. National Security Council in 2003, according to estimates in a few years in the U.S. between 315 million and 680 million computers will become available. Every day the old computer in the state of California is 6.000.
20 million units in Japan only in 2002 is estimated to white goods thrown into the garbage. In the same period used in 450.000 houses have been trashed bilgisayalar, this is 9.000 tons of e-waste.
Nokia sold 380 million phones worldwide in 2001, approximately 40.000 to 50.000 tons of waste each year, and that corresponds to the estimated 150 million tons of electronic waste has announced.
Increase in the production of electronics industry waste as a natural market growth will accelerate with the e-waste volume and production volume will be between parallellik. In the world of e-waste market in 2004 at $ 7.2 billion, with growth rate 8.8 percent in 2009, is expected to reach 11 billion dollars.
All these figures paint a terrifying future is about. |