Electronic trash from emerging economies like China has overtaken the dumping by the Western countries. According to reports, a UN-backed alliance stated that between 2012 to 2017 the emerging nations will lead in the amount of waste produced. The report projected the surge to be 33 percent from old electronic goods like TVs, cellphones, etc.

The report is a first-of-its-kind attempt to map the electronic waste of any country inorder to encourage safe disposal of toxic parts and recycling of electronic wastes. It revealed that emerging nations along with their economic rise have also been transforming the world economy in terms of pollution as well. The worldwide combined weight of discarded electronic goods each year would rise from 48.9 million in 2012, to 65.4 million tonnes in 2017. And most of the growth would be from the developing nations, according to reports in Reuters.

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