Yet the numerous stakeholders and extensive market networks within the informal recycling sector, coupled with the huge quantities of e-waste it collects and treats, all seems to indicate that this largely invisible sector should have own structures and planned productions so to run and grow at such a scale. Here treatment processes and resource allocation shift timely and innovatively in order to cater to the changing market demands throughout the recycling loops, thus achieving considerable profits. From this point of view, the whole informal recycling chain must be thoroughly investigated to understand: (1) which steps are environmental-harmless and should remain; (2) at which steps the material mass flow should be changed for better downstream environmental and recycling performance. Examination of economic reliance between stakeholders is critical for ascertaining and altering the determinant dynamics behind different informal recycling options. Besides, it should be noted that certain stages of informal recycling actually help to extend product life cycles through devices and/or parts reuse