The contribution to landfills from electronics will actually
escalate until about 2015, but good news will follow, according
to a report released Wednesday by Pike Research. So-called
e-waste will reach a global volume of 73 million metric tons by
2015, then begin to decline in the years following as recycling
initiatives and practices catch up to the rate of the production
of electronic goods, according to the report called "Electronics
Recycling and E-Waste Issues." The prediction is the firm's own
forecast based on the premise that companies and governments
worldwide will continue and expand current recycling programs
and initiatives--a practice Pike Research said will likely
continue now that public awareness of the effects of e-waste
dumping have been brought to light. The report found that the
efforts of nonprofit groups and the media to expose the effects
of e-waste dumping have influenced original equipment
manufacturers and recyclers worldwide to make an effort to clean
up their act. Pike Research to