Volume : III, Issue : X, October - 2014

Menace Of Electronic And Electrical Waste In Developing Countries

Vikrant Srivastava

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Electrical and Electronic Wastes, in spite of all the hue and cry globally; there is a lot of to be taken care of. No doubt developing countries like India are trying their best to empower and polish themselves as a developed nation, problems emerge. Import of e–waste helps countries like India to come out of the ashes right into the fire. A MAIT GTZ study says 50,000 metric tonne of e–waste is illegally imported to India. [1] If this continues results of accumulation of E–waste would be disastrous. What goes unnoticed by many in this lot is that the improper disposal of e–waste in developing countries is anyway going to affect the environment globally only to create havoc; Price of which we all would have to pay one day or the another. Between the other problems of a developing country like poverty, hunger, illiteracy, unemployment; government and residents of the country hardly focus on the need to employ stringency in proper disposal of e–waste. Resultant, the waste that can be used and disposed off in an environmentally healthy manner gets recycled and reused to be filled up in a landfill, only to increase the concentrations of heavy metals like Mercury and thereby poisoning the environment. If not dumped in a landfill, e–waste is simply burnt which makes the emission of poisonous gases airborne affecting the flora and fauna of the environment which obviously includes the workers involved in disposing off the waste and the human beings, animals and the vegetation of that area. This paper talks about the menace created by e–waste, why is it more so in developing countries, laws implemented in developing countries (taking India as an example) and stringency required to get rid of this waste. Keeping in mind to change our outlook from e–waste to e–wealth, considering it not as a waste but as an upcoming business, yet to be intelligently handled and explored.

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Vikrant Srivastava “Menace Of Electronic And Electrical Waste In Developing Countries” International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 10 October 2014

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