The percentage of electronics at the end of their lives which were recycled.
The EPA found that the percentage remained consistent from 1999-2005. Even as recycling rates went up, the amount of electronics reaching end of life outpaced the increase, leaving the figure static. (source: EPA, July 2008)
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Am I missing something about DRM?
For example, It's pretty computationally expensive to demand that the chips that handle video-processing (for things like dynamic shutters in projectors, white-balance, etc) operate on encrypted image data. It'd be a huge calculation overhead for every corrected pixel, especially for antialiasing techniques, since that would be multiple decryptions per antialiased pixel.
Much cheaper to decrypt and use a "clear" signal for processing, since a clear signal can be put through current video-processing hardware.
But as soon as you have a clear signal, someone can intercept it and bypass all the downstream copyright/DRM measures. (HDMI, MACROVISION, etc)
There will always be someone willing to break out the soldering iron and syphon clear signals off the PC board.