The global PC market remains on a path of overall decline for shipments in 2014, but things are looking brighter than they did at the beginning of the year. Why is that important to note, you may ask? Tracking PC and electronics shipments helps provide a broad picture of what future e-scrap streams will look like. Recent statistics indicate streams will be increasingly populated by the personal computer’s biggest challenger, the tablet, but the tablet transition doesn’t seem to be unfolding as quickly as some analysts had predicted. Almost 207 million units were shipped in 2013; 256 million are expected to ship in 2014 – so tablet shipments aren’t expected to overtake overall PC shipments until next year. Almost 321 million tablets will be shipped in 2015, estimates suggest, while just over 316 million PCs will ship during the year.

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