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Reverse Logistics: The process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost effective flow of raw materials, inprocess inventory, finished goods, and related information from the point of consumption to the point of origin for the purpose of recapturing value or of proper disposal.
The amount of electronic products discarded globally has skyrocketed recently, with 20-50 million tonnes generated every year. If such a huge figure is hard to imagine, think of it like this - if the estimated amount of e-waste generated every year would be put into containers on a train it would go once around the world!
Electronic waste (e-waste) now makes up five percent of all municipal solid waste worldwide, nearly the same amount as all plastic packaging, but it is much more hazardous. Not only developed countries generate e-waste; Asia discards an estimated 12 million tonnes each year.
E-waste is now the fastest growing component of the municipal solid waste stream because people are upgrading their mobile phones, computers, televisions, audio equipment and printers more frequently than ever before. Mobile phones and computers are causing the biggest problem because they are replaced most often. In Europe e-waste is increasing at three to five percent a year, almost three times faster than the total waste stream. Developing countries are also expected to triple their e-waste production over the next five years.
E-Waste - Electronic waste consists of materials that are no longer usable or cimputer scrap, which comes from a range of electronics from household appliances to mobile phones.
Reverse Logistics: The process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient, cost effective flow of raw materials, inprocess inventory, finished goods, and related information from the point of consumption to the point of origin for the purpose of recapturing value or of proper disposal.
More precisely, reverse logistics is the process of moving goods from their typical final destination for the purpose of capturing value, or proper disposal. Reverse logistics also
includes processing returned merchandise due to damage, seasonal inventory, restock, salvage, recalls, and excess inventory. It also includes recycling programs, hazardous material programs, obsolete equipment disposition, and asset recovery.