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Earth Day 2010: Recycle

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As a result, it is only done on an industrial level in a few dozen countries. The only countries that have laws that set up electronic recycling collection and processing systems are South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the 27 countries of the European Union, five provinces in Canada, and 20 states in the United States.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

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Switzerland was the first country in the world to adopt an electronics recycling system is 1991.Things South Korea also has a developed electronics recycling system that now recovers and properly processes over 75 percent of discarded electronics. Their system recovers around 75 percent of e-waste.