Flow and Menace of E-Wastes and Their Adverse Implications on Health and Environment

There has been increasing use and dependence on electrical and electronic gadgets like mobile phone, personal computers, laptops, server, data storage devices, photo copying machines, TV (CRT/LED/LCD), washing machine, refrigerators and air conditioners, etc. resulting into generation of large quantities of E-waste. The high rates of obsolescence of the above mentioned items coupled with steady rise in the demand have also resulted in substantial growth in e-waste generation. Individual demand for electrical and electronic equipment is rising at a substantial velocity across developing countries. Electronic wastes can contain more than a thousand assorted substances, many of which are fatal. These may be in form of heavy metals or chemicals such as mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium, magnetic properties and antimony (flame retardants), including poly brominated biphenyls, polyvinyl chloride, polychlorinated biphenyls, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers. This paper have shown the empirical findings regarding waste dumping, human health, impact of chemical wastes and focuses on adopting a policy of Reduce –ReuseRecycle-Recover –Dispose during various phases of the life cycle of the electronic instrument. The work reveled here tries to communicate some facts and figures about the concerned ewastes. The main objective of this study concentrates on examining the effort applied to calculate generation and collection of used electronics generated. This analysis provides insights on the quantities of used electronics generated and collected. The learning tries to frame and compute the harm and damage shared to the environment by e-waste. This study presses the urgent need for initiating the course of action to tackle the Problems of the recycling and disposal of hazardous e-waste. The key findings from this study depicts introduction of recycling locator in the developing countries.