ABSTRACT
While some of this volume has addressed the future, it is worth concluding with a long-term, high-level perspective. This chapter attempts such, first identifying key drivers, trends, and challenges for the future of electronic scrap. This leads to a development of qualitative scenarios of the future. The chapter concludes with recommended strategies for moving towards a more sustainable management of electronic scrap. Much of my prior work on green electronics questions conventional wisdom on how sustainability challenges are viewed and managed. The perspective developed in this work carries through in this chapter. However, the approach here is interpretive: I suggest assertions but do not take on the task of proof. Much of the evidentiary and quantitative argumentation appears in prior works (1–22). Given the futuristic nature of the topic, however, much of the argumentation in this chapter is, by necessity, speculative.
