"It [the paper] shows that so long as benefits from transnational e-waste flows exceed the benefits of compliance with regulations, such flows will continue. It argues that tightening regulations alone will not improve e-waste management and disposal; instead, the regulations must acknowledge and facilitate an international division of labor in the e-waste recycling industry."

Source: Vasudev, J., and B. Parthasarathy. 2007. ‘The Post Consumptive Residues of Information and Communication Technologies Transnational E-Waste Flows and Developmental Dilemmas’. In 2007 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2007. doi:10.1109/ICTD.2007.4937389.