electronic wastes (e-wastes) is the most rapidly growing segment of the municipal waste stream. e- wastes comprise 2-5 percent of municipal solid wastes, including many different electronic products. iran is the biggest consumer of electronic products in middle east. approximately, 1.2 million computers are assembled in iran every year. there are more than 40 million active cell phones in iran....

Technology is changing very quickly at very cheap prices. Along with this, it becomes easier to buy any electronic product right now as compared to previous years. There are many channels (Online & Offline) available in the market to buy your desired products. Nowadays it becomes a trend: to buy new electronic products to use the latest available technology. People prefer to buy new product ins...

The main purpose of this paper is to review and compare E-waste management systems operating in East Asian countries in efforts to identify future challenges facing the circulative economies in the region. The first topic of this paper is cost sharing (physical and financial) as applied to the various stakeholders, including producers, consumers, local governments and recyclers, in the E-waste ...

Solid waste management practices itself is far from satisfactory, in India. Added to the above, is another problem of recent origin i.e. E-waste handling and management which has complicated waste management due to their unique properties than other solid wastes. The generation, separation, recycling and recovery of precious metals are still in its nascent state, almost all over India. In order...

E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams in India due to increasing “market penetration” in developing countries, “replacement market” in developed countries and “high obsolescence rate”. The composition of e-waste is very diverse and differs in products across different categories. It contains more than a 1000 different substances, which fall under “hazardous” and “nonhazardous” cat...

Electronic waste or e-waste is one of the rapidly growing problems of the world. E-waste comprises of a multitude of components, some containing toxic substances that can have an adverse impact on human health and the environment if not handled properly. In India, e-waste management assumes greater significance not only due to the generation of its own e-waste but also because of the dumping of...

OBJECTIVE Electronic waste (e-waste) has been an emerging environmental health issue in both developed and developing countries, but its current management practice may result in unintended developmental neurotoxicity in vulnerable populations. To provide updated information about the scope of the issue, presence of known and suspected neurotoxicants, toxicologic mechanisms, and current data ga...

The industrial revolution followed by the advances in information technology during the last century has radically changed people's lifestyle. The increasing economic development has introduced another aspect of pollution in the environment and that is “E-waste”. Electronic waste, abbreviated as e-waste, consists of discarded old computers, TVs, refrigerators, radios-basically any electrical or...

Electronic waste, or e-waste, is an emerging problem with developed nations as with developing nations. In the absence of proper collection and disposal systems, aware‐ ness, and proper regulations, the problem is rather more acute in developing nations. These wastes are environmentally hazardous on one hand and valuable on the other. They contain substantial amount of metal value, including pr...

large volumes of mostly irreparable electronic waste (e-waste) are shipped to africa on a monthly basis, of which nigeria receives the largest share. e-waste management practices in nigeria have remained completely primitive until date; and e-waste workers have little or no occupational safety knowledge and devices. the thousands of chemicals in e-waste have been reported to be toxic to human h...