"electric waste" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to any kind of waste that is created by the use of electricity. For example, "The issue of electric waste is becoming increasingly important as more and more people switch to electric vehicles."
The chemical and electronic components of car batteries and their waste management require also a major investment and development of recycling technologies, to limit the dispersion of electric waste materials in the environment.
"Electric waste comes here from all over the world – but especially from Europe," says Karim, 29, who, like almost all the scrap dealers at Agbogbloshie, originally comes from northern Ghana but has been salvaging, buying and selling at the dump for 10 years.
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are widespread in the environment and applied in a range of industrial applications such as used as insulating materials and coolant fluids in transformer, capacitors and motors, and also produced as a byproduct during electric waste recycling (Jursa et al. 2006, Bordajandi et al. 2008).
Uncontrolled burning and dismantling/recycling of electronic and electric waste in developing countries results in contamination and formation of brominated and chlorinated dioxins and furans (Weber and Kuch 2003); these substances are highly toxic, thus causing increased concern both for the health of individuals and for the environment.
The worldwide hybrid system has usually been composed of types of energy source devices, such as solar collector, boiler (coal, gas, oil), electric heater, waste energy device, cooling tower, cooler, and thermal storage system with natural cold and hot.
Each year U.S. electric utilities waste tens of billions of cubic feet of natural gas on "spinning reserves," for example, generators that are running below top efficiency so they can supply electricity on a moment's notice.
The study was carried out on samples furnished by an Algerian company specialised in the recycling of electric cable wastes.
The experiments are carried out with a mixture of mm-size granules of copper and PVC, originating from mechanically processed electric wire wastes.
The aim of this work is to identify the optimal operating conditions of such equipment, when employed for separating copper and plastics from either flexible or rigid electric wire wastes.
RWE currently operates electric, water and waste-management services in about 120 countries, but its purchase of Thames Water would be its first foray in Britain.
Waste electric and electronic equipment (WEEE) may cause environmental problems during the waste management phase if it is not designed to be environment friendly.
