ITU will “strengthen its activities” on e-waste, said an ITU...
ITU will “strengthen its activities” on e-waste, said an ITU blog post from the World Telecommunications Standardization Assembly (http://bit.ly/UVbp0h). A proposed resolution up for adoption urges the directors of the ITU bureaus on standardization and development to assist developing countries…
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in assessing “e-waste challenges” and to “lead global efforts combatting and raising awareness around e-waste’s adverse effects,” it said. The resolution also asks an ITU-T study group to document and develop best-practice models of handling, controlling, treating and recycling e-waste, and to reflect the resulting findings in international standards, it said. The study group would also be instructed to study the e-waste impacts resulting from developed countries’ exports of used telecom and information and communications technology gear to developing nations, it said.