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TABLE 22.1
Categories of Electronics Equipment

User Application
Consumer Video: televisions, VCRs, camcorders, digital cameras, and control boxes
Audio: stereo systems and components, CD players, and radios
Communications: cell phones, pagers, PDAs
Personal: computers, printers, and calculators
Game systems
Automotive Control systems
Audio systems
Instrumentation
Computers and peripheral equipment: CPUs, monitors, printers, scanners, storage
devices, servers, and networking systems
Financial Systems: retail or check-out, banking or teller, and ATMs
Security Systems: monitoring and detection equipment
Entertainment: radio, television and movie production equipment, transmission
systems, and sound and video projection equipment, amusements
Office equipment: copiers, fax machines, imaging systems, and printing systems
Industrial Telecommunications equipment: telephones, switching systems, PBXs, transmitters,
receivers, and microwave systems
Test and measurement equipment: oscilloscopes, power supplies, and signal processors
Medical equipment: EKGs, MRIs, CAT scan, and X-ray, monitors
Manufacturing equipment: control systems, data entry devices, workstations,
instruments, and process tools
Aerospace On-board control systems
Communications systems
Navigation systems
Radar and traffic control systems
In-flight entertainment systems
Military/defense Weapons control systems
Communications systems
Navigational systems
Security systems
Encryption systems
Source: IAER, 2002. Reproduced with kind permission of the International Associations of Electronics
Recyclers, Albany, NY.

TABLE 22.2
Link between Computing Power and the Rate of PC Disposal

Year 1971 1974 1976 1982 1986 1989 1993 1995
Chip 4004 8080 8086 80286 386DX 486 Pentium PentiumPro
Transistors 2,300 6,000 29,000 134,000 275,000 1.2 m 3.1 m 5.5 m
Source: Reproduced with kind permission of Microprocessor Report, Scottsdale, AZ; and The Silicon Valley
Toxics Coalition, San Jose, CA.