According to the latest global estimates of the total number of informal waste workers, anywhere between 2.9 and 12.9 million women are working in the informal waste sector, which potentially exposes them to toxic e-waste and puts them and their unborn children at risk of major and lasting health impacts.
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每年产生的电子废物有多少，它们又去了哪里？
How much e-waste is generated each year and where does it go?
According to the Global E-waste Statistics Partnership’s Global E-waste Monitor, in 2019, some 53.6 million tonnes of e-waste were generated, equivalent in weight to 350 cruise ships [2] .
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自2014年即仅仅五年前至今，该数值已增长21%，并将继续上涨[3]。
It had grown 21% since 2014, just five years earlier, and is set to keep expanding [3] .
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2019年产生的电子废物中，只有17%达到了正规管理或回收制度标准[3]。
Only 17% of e-waste produced in 2019 reached formal management or recycling systems [3] .
The rest was illegally dumped domestically or internationally, overwhelmingly in low- or middle-income countries, in unmonitored sites, where it was recycled by informal workers.
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即使是在制定了有组织废物管理制度的城市中，电子废物往往也是与其他固体废物一起丢弃，并最终被填埋。
Even in cities with organized waste management systems, e-waste is often discarded alongside other solid waste, ending up in landfills.
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此类被丢弃的电子废物可使有毒物质渗入含水层并进入饮用水供应系统。
Such discarded e-waste can leach toxicants into aquifers and drinking water supplies.
As use of cell phones, smart phones and computers grows exponentially, rapid obsolescence sees much faster replacement cycles, and technological advances create new products containing valuable and dangerous components, such as electric cars and e-cigarettes.
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如不采取任何行动，全球电子废物量预计将出现激增。
The globalvolume of e-waste is expected to balloon if nothing is done.