"As the environmental regulations become more stringent in the advanced nations, the volume of e-waste shipped off illegally increases. Gattuso (2005) have argued that due to the imposition of a ban on desktops from municipal landfills in the US, the scrap export has increased to countries where there is no such ban. Thus the so-called ‘recyclers’ in the US in reality act as scrap brokers since actual e-waste management proves to be an expensive operation when one is forced to abide by the prevailing environmental standards."

Meta-Actor: Scientific Community

Source Document: http://www.iss.nl/fileadmin/ASSETS/iss/Documents/Conference_presentations/NatureInc_Somjita_Laha.pdf

Date: 2011

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