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E-waste: Formation and Their Consequences


Simanchal Dash
Pages: 01-14
ISBN: 978-93-5834-072-3


Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology (Volume -2)

Emerging Trends in Engineering and Technology
(Volume - 2)

Abstract

An electronic and electrical product which is no more use and discarded or recycled is known as electronic waste or e-waste. Constantly rise of handling in electronics and electrical equipments has produced a large no of e-waste. At present in India practices of e-waste management encounters many challenges. Out of them some of the most significant are insufficient awareness in consumers, problem in informal cycling, difficulty in inventorization and improper regulations. Adverse impact on the environment and human health consequences rises by entering toxic materials into the waste stream. The vast creation of e-waste has formed a new e-waste stream in the country containing no more used goods, fulfilled life of electrical and electronics goods after their requisite use. Different factors like innovation, product design and globalization replace these equipments in very little span of time and made it speedy by rising waste in the earth. The e-waste treatment infrastructure is limited in India and casual recycling continues to exist under the domain of flexible legislative frame. The waste managing agencies in our country is more pertaining to the presence of toxic and hazardous substances in e-wasted equipments on account of their effect on human health and environment. The survival and execution of environmentally sound management is limited and moving ahead very slowly due to apparent reasons. The formal recyclers have specially made wide-ranging e-waste treatment methods but not according to the e-waste generated in the country at the same time the informal recyclers are treating most of the e-waste produced with hazardous ways.

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