A decriptive slide on E-Waste.This is slide is mainly based on what is, how is E- waste get created and what are the steps to reduce it

1. ELECTRONIC - WASTE

2. PRESENTATION
OUTLINE
• Background
• Problems
• Management and disposal
options
• The government’s
responsibilities

3. BACKGROUND
• There is no generally accepted
definition of e-waste
• Unwanted, obsolete or unusable
electronic products such as
computers, computer
peripherals,televisions,VCRs,DV
D Players, stereo equipment,
hand cell phones are commonly
referred to as ‘electronic waste’

5. Problems
• Management and disposal of e-waste
has become a serious problem
among states nationwide, WHY?
• The problem of electronic waste (e-
waste) is growing at an
unsustainable rate.
• E-waste is now the fastest growing,
and most toxic, component of
municipal garbage.
• Local governments are facing huge
costs to handle e-waste, and even
greater costs if they do not capture
this toxic stream and handle it in an
appropriate manner.

6. Mobile phones; facts
• Production today- 23 phones/sec
• Sales 2003- 515 million
• Sales 2004- 665 million
• Sales 2005- 870 million
• Subscribers-1.9 billion in 2005
• Subscribers- 2.6 billion in 2009
• Lifespan- 0.5- 1.5 (with 1st user)
• (estimates from the Basel
convention based study 2006)

7. E-waste accumulation in
China

8. 1.It is taking up valuable
landfill space
• A study by the USA showed that 1-
2% of municipal waste is made up of
e-waste
• A further research estimates the
growing of e-waste at 3 times the
rate of other waste streams.
• It is also estimated that between
1997 and 2007,500 million
computers would become obsolete

9. 2.e-waste contains
hazardous material
• The leaching of heavy material
from e-waste may a pose a
potential long term human
health and environmental
impacts
• ground Water especially is more
likely to be polluted (note, more
half the country reliant on
ground water resources)

11. Of particular concern is
Lead in e-waste
• Lead is a toxic substances which
may cause lead poisoning and
can be especially harmful young
children.
• A typical 17-inch computer
monitor contains approximately
2.2 pounds of lead
• the 500 million computers that
will become obsolete between
1997 and 2007 will contain nearly
1.6 billion pounds of lead

13. Other problems
• Illegal exporting especially to
Asia
• Uncontrolled burning and
disposal are causing env
problems
• The toxicity of some of the
substance, eg mercury,cadmium
may also pose an environmental
and health challenge

14. Management and
disposal options
• Due to increased
public,regulatory and
commercial scrutiny and also a
commensurate entrepreneur
interest,there has been a
diversion from energy intensive
down cycling processes to more
mature processing systems
• This has been largely achieved
through reuse and refurbishing

15. reuse
• Preventing waste in the first
place is the preferred mngt
option
• This can be achieved through
repairing,upgrading used
electrical equipment
• Example- adding memory to a
computer,upgrading software

16. recycle
• Make use of take back
programs
• Through recycling units are
either reused or dismantled for
recycling.
• The silver,gold,lead and other
heavy metal are recyclable

17. Dispose
• The least preferred option is to
landfill electronic waste
• This should only come as a last
option but care to consult with
state regulations on disposal of
any hazardous waste

18. Benefits of reuse (social
and env)
• Diminished demand for new products and
their commensurate requirement for virgin
raw material
• There is lessened need for water and
energy for the associated manufacturing
• Less packaging per unit
• Availability of tech to wider swaths of
society due to greater affordability of
products
• Saved landfill space

19. challenges
• When materials cannot or will
not be used, conventional
recycling or disposal via landfill
will follow
• The complexity of the items to
be disposed of
• cost of env sound recycling
systems

20. Each one of us has a
role to play!
• Need for a e-waste policy and legislation
• Encourage and facilitate organized
recycling systems
• Should subsidies recycling and disposal
industries
• Collect fee from
manufactured/consumers for the
disposal of toxic material
• Incentive schemes for garbage
collectors and general public for
collecting and handling over e-waste
• Awareness programme on e-waste for
school children and general public

22. continuation
• Transparency and accountability to
the public Handling large amounts of
e-waste poses risks of toxic
contamination to workers and
surrounding communities if
conducted carelessly.
• Thus, the most basic criterion that
employees and citizens should
rightfully expect from any recycling
operation is that it be open to public
inspection.

23. Conclusion
• it is important that we create a
national framework for the
environmentally sound management
of e-waste including wide public
awareness and education
• Conduct detailed inventories of e-
waste
• Initiate pilot schemes on collection
and sorting of e-wastes,including
take back schemes and schemes for
repair refurbishment and recycling

24. THANK YOU FOR YOUR
ATTENTION