Can you throw away electronics within a foreign country as a tourist? [closed]

No one cares about the stuff you bring in to another country, as long as this stuff is legal. If you legally bring an electronic device to another country, no one cares about whether you will take it back or not and no one keeps track of it.

The only thing you should consider, as a citizen of world, is that it's very much appreciated if you appropriately recycle your electronic devise instead of throwing it into the next trash bin, or even worse (God forbid) throw it into the streets.

When you enter a country, you are supposed to declare anything you bring in, especially gifts. This is so that appropriate taxes can be applied. In fact, at customs, they may stop you and ask you if you are bringing in anything of value. For example, you could be bringing in a new computer, on which you may be asked to pay import taxes. However, if you can prove that it is yours, and you will take it back with you, you do not have to pay anything. In those rare cases the custom officer may fill out a form, so that you will be required to take that object back out with you. This is the only case in which you may have to worry about paying import taxes if the object later breaks and you throw it out (unless you can prove it). Now this happens rarely, but this is how in theory it should work.

Of course, as others have pointed out, you should also make sure electronics is disposed properly, no matter where you are.

How would they know, unless they took an inventory of your luggage when you arrived?

There are a few caveats to this:

• If it was a piece of equipment that attracts a special tax or import duty, they might think that you had sold it in the country if you no longer have it with you when you leave. You could be stung with a large tax bill on departure if they think you lied about it being for personal use when you brought it in.
• If the item is in some way illegal in the country or contains something that is illegal (some countries have rules about things like religious texts, for example).
• You could be accused of littering, endangering wildlife, or some such thing if you don't dispose of it in the proper way.