A team of academics has taken issue with a number of key statements on e-scrap exports and generation recently made by the United Nations Environment Programme.
In a post on a scholarly waste and pollution blog called Discard Studies, researchers Josh Lepawsky, Joshua Goldstein and Yvan Schulz make the case that a report released by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) this spring contains "serious shortcomings."
A recent study estimated the volume of used computers and display devices traded among and exported from North American countries to the rest of the world.