e-wasten.
/ˈiːweɪst/, U.S. /ˈiˌweɪst/ 1. Worthless or inferior electronic text or content. rare.
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1987 comp.unix.questions 8 Jan. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 7 June 2019) The line eater is an Electronic Godzilla rebelling against E-waste.
2012 @MediaMK 8 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 11 June 2019) Lol that article by the standard is just e-waste! Buuuuuuuulllshiet.
2. Discarded electronic and electrical equipment (esp. devices such as mobile phones, computers, etc.), typically containing environmentally hazardous substances and requiring special treatment for safe disposal or recycling; cf. electronic waste n. at electronic adj. Compounds, electrical waste n. at electrical adj. and n. Compounds.Frequently as a modifier, as in e-waste management, e-waste recycling, etc.
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1999 Choice (Austral. Consumers’ Assoc.) June 22 We've got email, e-commerce and e-credit. Now, in the wake of the electronic revolution, we have e-waste... It's only recently that sending electronic waste to landfill has been widely recognised as a problem.
1999 misc.activism.progressive 11 Nov. (Usenet newsgroup, accessed 7 June 2019) Carrying discarded computers labeled ‘e-toxics’ and ‘e-waste’, participants delivered a letter to Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, urging his assistance to clean up the industry.
2002 New Internationalist May 6/1 A report showing that e-waste is the fastest growing waste-stream in the industrialized world.
2017 RightVision Media Newswire: Plus Company Updates (Nexis) 1 July [The company] offers e-waste recycling and management services, such as repair, refurbish and reuse of all electronic and electrical equipment.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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