Access to Information Communication Technology (ICT) is pivotal of a country’s economic and social devel-opment and is currently improving throughout the developed and developing world. ICT is also contributing to the ever growing amount of e-waste, when appliances reach their end of life. E-waste has been acknowl-edged as a complex waste stream containing both hazardous substances and valuable secondary resources. Serious health, socio-economic, and environmental problems that arise due to the unsound management of e-waste have been widely documented. While especially in OECD countries the paradigms of the "closed loop economy" and the "extended producer responsibility (EPR)" lead to a professionalized e-waste recycling sector, developing countries and countries in transition often lack the infrastructure and resources for the sustainable management of e-waste.