Carolina Barola

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1. Introduction Waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) or e-waste is one of the fastest growing pollution problems, and since the late 2010s, the issues regarding its impact are becoming of global concern [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. The increasing use of electrical and electronic devices such as freezers, refrigerators, fans, personal computers, and cell phones and their short lifespans result in the generation of a huge volume of e-waste.

1. Introduction There is extensive literature on the presence of polyphenols belonging to phenyl alcohol sub-class, tyrosol (T) and hydroxytyrosol (HT), in various plants and, mainly, in olive products (fruits, leaves and oil) as these molecules have demonstrated several beneficial health effects.