E-Waste Recycling: India versus Developed Countries

Abstract

Abstract E-waste or electronic-waste management is a totally new field of research in India. It is also known as e-scrap. It is very important to know that how we are treating e-waste in India as it causes some serious health hazards to human beings. It is also very essential to study what policies we are using for managing e-waste in India. People in India are not aware about the negative effects of e-waste on human health; that is why they are also unaware of the e-waste management concept. We, as Indian store their abandoned electronic products at their homes. By doing so, we are directly ignoring our health as hazardous gases are released from this discarded electronics equipment which cause cancer, liver problems and other serious health hazards. Here in this paper we study e-waste management policies of various developed countries. We consider Europe, USA, United Kingdom, Japan and Germany as developed countries here. We also study the e-waste management policies for India also. This case study was conducted to find out the limitations in existing Indian e-waste management policies. The comparison is based on three points, which are: challenges or drawbacks in the existing ewaste management system, skill and technology used to recycle the e-waste and collection and disposal methods used for e-waste.

Keywords: E-waste, management, policies, India, USA, German

Cite this Article Somvir Arya, Ajay Gupta, Arvind Bhardwaj. E-Waste Recycling: India versus Developed Countries. Journal of Energy, Environment & Carbon Credits. 2019; 9(1): 6–12P.