The United States, Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom were all suddenly confronted with a massive waste problem when the Chinese government called for the ban on 24 types of solid waste. Until the decision was made in China, around 70% of electronic waste was coming from other countries. These included old and discarded computers, phones, televisions and microwaves as well as printers and other electronic bits and pieces. The U.S., along with Europe, has been sending their ewaste to Southeast Asia since China’s environmental decision to no longer take in ewaste. Two of the biggest collectors of this waste, Vietnam, and Thailand, have decided to stop importing e-waste. In…