It is also leading to the adoption of a multiplicity of electronic devices, prompting consumers to buy a new phone, a new computer, a new program which will become obsolete by the time we can figure out how to install it. A newer, better, and more expensive version will already be on the market, lessening the value and the appeal of versions released just prior.6 The statistics on mobile broadband penetration in 2011 demonstrate a growth in uptake globally.7 The same upward trend in Internet penetration in households by level of development attests to the steady adoption of these new technologies by both the developed and developing countries in 2011. A practical definition of e-waste is 'any electrically powered appliance that fails to satisfy the current owner for its originally intended purpose'. In February 2010, UNEP released a report titled, "Recycling - from E-Waste to Resources" in which it called for the urgent need to prepare developing countries for the surge in e-waste.10 It used data from 11 representative developing countries to estimate current and future e-waste generation, which includes old and dilapidated desk and laptop computers, printers, mobile phones, pagers, digital photo and music devices, refrigerators, toys, and televisions.