Electronic Waste Management | EPR Registration Consultant
Due to the alarming rate at which e-waste is rising, its disposal is becoming a major problem in India. Due to non-availability of proper methodologies of e-waste disposal and recycling, households generally keep on piling up the waste or at best sell them off to ragpickers or some pawn shops. The less known fact is that more than twenty thousand workers are engaged in the manual dismantling of these electronic items due to the presence of valuable metals in them which people sell off to earn a living. However, the sad side of the story is that these kinds of manual work can be injurious to health and the thrown away parts of the electronics can cause major environmental problems in the long run. Health impacts: The electronic waste which is wrongfully disposed of comprises of articles which are mainly made up of harmful metals like lead, beryllium, and cadmium. Children are highly vulnerable to lead poisoning when these harmful metals undergo environmental contamina