Research Posters

An Integrated Health, Economic, and Environmental Sustainability Approach (IHEESA) for Understanding the Health Inequity of E-waste Recycling and Repair Workers in Bangladesh

• Electronic waste (E-waste) is a globalenvironmental and health inequity issue

• Annual global production is ~49 (2012) and ~65 (2017) million metric tons

• Formal e-waste recycling is expensive, informal recycling abounds

• 60-90% of global e-waste is illegally traded from high- to low- and middleincome countries (LMICs)

Characterizing the Environmental Burden of E-waste Recycling/Repair Workers in Bangladesh
6/11/20
Electronic waste (e-waste) is a rising global environmental and health inequity issue for a number of reasons. Among them, it generates hundreds of contaminants, such as heavy metals, flame retardants, and other volatile organic compounds, to which both workers and their families are exposed.