New e-waste map shows the global toll of electronics

http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/15/5208626/step-initiative-global-ewaste-map

http://www.step-initiative.org/index.php/WorldMap.html

According to data collected by the StEP Initiative, the annual world volume of end-of-life electronics is expected to jump one-third to 65.4 million tons by 2017. That's a 33 percent jump, in five years, of the refrigerators, TVs, mobile phones, computers, e-toys, and other electronics people around the world have used and discarded.