A research on e-waste has shown up the statement Developing nations to produce more e-waste than developed ones by 2016 to be true!

Eric Williams and colleagues cite a dramatic increase in ownership of PCs and other electronic devices in both developed and developing countries.

At the same time, technological advances are shrinking the lifetime of consumer electronics products, so that people discard electronics products sooner than ever before.

That trend has led to global concern about environmentally safe ways of disposing of e-waste, which contains potentially toxic substances.

The scientists used a computer model to forecast global distribution of discarded PCs.

They concluded that consumers in developing countries would trash more computers than developed countries by 2016, with the trend continuing and escalating thereafter.

“Our central assertion is that the new structure of global e-waste generation discovered here, combined with economic and social considerations, call for a serious reconsideration of e-waste policy,” the report noted.

The study has been published in ACS’ semi-monthly journal Environmental Science and Technology. (ANI)