First, electronic waste is currently hazardous waste in that it contains lead, mercury, cadmium, brominated flame retardants etc, which are integrally mixed into components and cannot therefore be easily separated from the non-hazardous components.

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The complexities associated with the management of organizations whose activities take place in multiple and different countries, separated by geographic distance and time, increase the difficulties of observing and making sense of non-financial consequences of finance-related decisions, as well as of the impact of financial decisions on strategic moves.

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