Title: Electronic pollution - The upcoming environmental concern - Envibrary
Headings: Electronic pollution – The upcoming environmental concern
Electronic pollution – The upcoming environmental concern
What is electronic pollution?
What is e-waste?
The rising disposal of e-waste
How the e-waste radiation harms the environment?
E-waste: Global facts and figures
Adverse effects of e-waste on humans and the environment
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E-waste management
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Arijit Samajdar

Content: It is hoarding as well as disposing of unused or irreparable, electronic items like mobile phones, television sets, computer sets, refrigerator, tape recorders etc. It includes a long unending list of electrical equipment. These may be classified into 3 parts. Recycled, Non-recycled and Risky. Discarded computers, office electronic equipment, entertainment device electronics , mobile phones , television sets, and refrigerators include used electronics which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling, or disposal as well as re-usable (working and repairable electronics) and secondary scraps (copper, steel, plastic, etc.). Cathode ray tubes (CRTs) are considered one of the hardest types to recycle. They have a relatively high concentration of lead and phosphors (not to be confused with phosphorus), both of which are necessary for the display. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) includes discarded CRT monitors in its category of “hazardous household waste”. The rising disposal of e-waste
Disposal of e-waste is an emerging global environmental and public health issue, as this waste has become the most rapidly growing segment of the formal municipal waste stream in the world. With technology advancement surplus in demand and surplus in supply leads to excessive wastage of products.