Developing countries are now shipping more e-waste by weight to developed countries than vice versa, according to a recent analysis of United Nations trade data by Josh Lepawsky, a geographer at Canada's Memorial University of Newfoundland and an expert on the electronic waste trade. "Between 1996 and 2012 the dominant inter-regional trade pattern has been turned on its head," he says.
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