The electronic industry, like information technology and telecommunication, is the world’s largest and fastest growing manufacturing industry. As a consequence of this growth, combined with rapid product obsolescence, discarded electronics or e – waste is now the fastest growing waste stream in the industrialized world. Although the fast development in information technology has radically changed people’s life–style and helped human race, the mis–management of e–waste has led to new problems of contamination and pollution, thus posing a threat to environment and health