E-waste is electrical and electronic equipment that is at the end of its useful life.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The debate on 3 February 2011 was to update the 2003 Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive.

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There I found the U.S. median hourly wage rate for electrical and electronic equipment assemblers, which pretty accurately describes the work done by all those Foxconn workers assembling iPads.

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