Electronic waste (E-waste) is currently deemed to be one of the most challenging greatest problems causing harm to the world due to its health and environmental hazards. Its toxic accumulation is also due to the difficulty of disposing of it or recycling some of its components, which represents a challenge to the organizations concerned with human health and a clean environment both in the industrialized and world and in developing countries. Concomitantly, it also represents a legal challenge as well, calling forth a need to pass legislation to oversee and control electronic waste. Electronic pollution has become a serious danger in developing world countries because such states are often targeted as dumping spaces for the export of used electronic devices and the associated waste thereof, part of the policies and geography of material waste disposal, in the US, the Middle East and elsewhere (see also: Nyamrunda2o20; EPA 2022a; EPA 2022b; De Oliva 2021; CEC 2016; Wang et al. 2016).
Within the context of Egyptian and the UAE legislation, this paper examines the problem of electronic waste pollution as well as its related hazards and what can and may result therefrom, such as the associated problematic legal issues. It addresses the definition of electronic waste, the necessary sound management of thereof and the role of the law in this regard, and seeks to explain the liability elements arising from the electronic pollution as a global challenge.