...a recent report by the UN Basel Convention’s E-waste Africa Program found that as much as 85 percent of Africa’s e-waste is now local. That report found that in five West African nations ten times more people have personal computers compared with a decade ago, and 100 times as many people have cellphones. In those countries alone, between 650,000 and 1 million tons of domestic e-waste are now generated per year. By comparison, the U.S. produces the most e-waste annually, with about 3 million tons, followed by China (2.3 million), according to a 2010 UN report.
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