Editing Recycling (section)

==== [[Electronic waste|E-waste]] ====
According to the [[WHO]] (2023), “Every year millions of electrical and electronic devices are discarded ... a threat to the environment and to human health if they are not treated, disposed of, and recycled appropriately. Common items ... include computers ... [[e-waste]] are recycled using environmentally unsound techniques and are likely stored in homes and warehouses, dumped, exported or recycled under inferior conditions. When e-waste is treated using inferior activities, it can release as many as 1000 different chemical substances ... including harmful [[neurotoxin|neurotoxicants]] such as [[lead]].”<ref name="
	World Health Organization (WHO)
 2023 o191">{{cite web | title=Electronic waste (e-waste) | website=
	World Health Organization (WHO)
 | date=18 Oct 2023 | url=https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/electronic-waste-(e-waste) | ref={{sfnref |  	World Health Organization (WHO)  | 2023}} | access-date=11 Dec 2023}}</ref> A paper in the journal ''Sustainable Materials & Technologies'' remarks upon the difficulty of managing e-waste, particularly from home automation products, which, due to their becoming obsolete at a high rate, are putting increasing strain on recycling systems, which have not adapted to meet the recycling needs posed by this type of product.<ref name="jk">Patil T., Rebaioli L., Fassi I., "[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214993722000367 Cyber-physical systems for end-of-life management of printed circuit boards and mechatronics products in home automation: A review]" Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 2022.</ref>