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<strong>SMS</strong> Institute of Technology, L ucknow<br />

Department of <strong>Electronics</strong> & Co mmunication<br />

E -Waste<br />

Electronic waste, E- scrap or waste Electrical and<br />

electronic equipment (WEEE)<br />

DEFINITION "Electronic waste"<br />

may be defined as all secondary<br />

computers, entertainment devic e<br />

electronics, mobile phones, and other<br />

items such as television sets and refrigerators,<br />

whether sold, donated, or<br />

discarded by their original ow ners.<br />

This definition includes used electronics<br />

which are destined for reuse, resale,<br />

salvage, recycling, or d isposal.<br />

Others define the re-usables ( working<br />

and repairable electronics ) and<br />

secondary scrap (copper, steel, etc.)<br />

to be "commodities", and reserve the<br />

term "waste" for residue or material<br />

which was represented as working or<br />

repairable but which is dumped or disposed<br />

or discarded by the buye r<br />

rather than recycled, includin g residue<br />

from reuse and recycling operations.<br />

"<strong>Electronics</strong> Waste is a waste<br />

consisting of any broken or unwanted<br />

electrical or electrical appliance."<br />

GLOBEL TRADE IS-<br />

SUES FOR E-WASTE<br />

Increased regulation of electronic<br />

waste and concern over the environmental<br />

harm which can result f rom<br />

toxic electronic waste has raised disposal<br />

costs. The regulation creates an<br />

economic disincentive to remove residues<br />

prior to export. Critics of trade<br />

in used electronics maintain that it is<br />

too easy for brokers calling themselves<br />

recyclers to export unscreened electronic<br />

waste to developing countries,<br />

such as China, India and parts of Africa,<br />

thus avoiding the expens e of<br />

removing items like bad cathode ray<br />

tubes (the processing of which is expensive<br />

and difficult). The de veloping<br />

countries are becoming big dump<br />

yards of e-waste due to their weak<br />

laws. Proponents of internatio nal<br />

trade point to the success of fair trade<br />

programs in other industries, where<br />

cooperation has led creation of sustainable<br />

jobs and can bring affordable<br />

technology in countries where repair<br />

and reuse rates are higher. In highly<br />

polluting, primitive Guiya in the<br />

Shantou region of China, Delhi and<br />

Bangalore in India as well as the<br />

Agbogbloshie site near Accra, Ghana<br />

have electronic waste processing areas.<br />

Uncontrolled burning, disassembly,<br />

and disposal can cause a variety<br />

of environmental problems such as<br />

groundwater contamination, atm o-<br />

spheric pollution, or even water pollution<br />

either by immediate dis charge<br />

or due to surface runoff (espe cially<br />

near coastal areas), as well as health<br />

problems including occupational safety<br />

and health effects among those directly<br />

involved, due to the me thods<br />

of processing the waste. Thous ands<br />

of men, women, and children are employed<br />

recycling technologies, extracting<br />

the metals, toners, and pl astics<br />

from computers and other electronic<br />

Aditya Bhardwaj<br />

EC - III year<br />

waste. Recent studies show tha t 7<br />

out of 10 children in this region have<br />

too much lead in their blood.<br />

SOURCES OF E-WASTE<br />

‣ IT &TELECOM Equipments<br />

‣ Large household Appliances &<br />

Small household Appliances<br />

‣ Consumer & Lighting Equipments<br />

‣ Electrical & <strong>Electronics</strong> Tools<br />

‣ Toys, Leisure & Sports Equipment<br />

‣ Medical Devices<br />

‣ Monitoring & Control Instruments<br />

E- WASTE<br />

MANAGEMENT<br />

Recycling:<br />

Today the electronic waste rec y-<br />

cling business is in all areas of the developed<br />

world a large and rapidly consolidating<br />

business. Electronic waste<br />

processing systems have matured in<br />

43 <strong>Electronics</strong> <strong>Spectra</strong>, 2010

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