UN: Environment and health at high risk from growing weight of ‘e-waste’ worldwide

25.01.2019 13:49 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) — As of this week, World Economic Forum in Davos (Switzerland) is going on. In an effort to highlight the rising challenge posed by mountains of discarded electronics worldwide, offer some solutions to a behemoth-sized problem that is making the world sicker, seven UN entities have got together to launch the report «A New Circular Vision for Electronics — Time for a Global Reboot» at the Forum, UN Radio reports. As to the report, about 50 million tonnes of electronic waste, or e-waste, is being thrown away each year, according to a new joint United Nations report — what exceeds the combined weight of all the commercial airliners ever made, or alternatively, enough Eiffel Towers to fill the whole of Manhattan. The report calls for a new vision for e-waste based on the «circular economy» concept, whereby a regenerative system can minimize waste and energy leakage. «E-waste is a growing global challenge that poses a serious threat to the environment and human health worldwide», said Stephan Sicars, Director of the Department of Environment at the UN Industrial Development Organization, while commenting on the report. «To minimize this threat, UNIDO works with various UN agencies and other partners on a range of e-waste projects, all of which are underpinned by a circular economy approach,» he stressed.

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