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The designations employed and the presentation of the material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the United Nations University (UNU) or the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city, or area, or of its authorities, or concerning delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. [...] This 2017 edition of the Global E-waste Monitor is an important achievement of the Partnership and will inform policy makers, industries, and businesses to enhance the understanding and interpretation of global e-waste data, thus communicating the data to the general public and relevant stakeholders. [...] The amount Key factors for the success and spread of EEE and of traffic, in particular from cloud services, and the the Internet include a high degree of competition number of data centres are increasing and will in the telecommunication market, technological continue to grow in the coming years, according to advances, particularly in computing power and the Cisco Global Cloud Index (GCI, Chart 3.. [...] Past sales are the methodology and the statistical calculations calculated back to 1980 based on the trends of have been improved and updated data sources the available data and the market entry of the have been used; therefore the presented results appliance. [...] Standards and Methodologies to Measure E-waste E-waste in Waste Bins questionnaire, or did not receive a questionnaire, The source data for the calculations of the e-waste were left zero in the published totals on e-waste in waste bins was based on studies of residual that was collected through the official take-back waste that’s available in the literature for various systems.