Review on E-waste management and its impact on the environment and society

Abstract

Electronic trash, often known as E-waste, is a type of garbage generated by electronic in the industrial world, trash is one of the most difficult and rapidly expanding issues. E-waste is made up of old or end-of-life electronic appliances such as computers, laptops, televisions, generators, DVDs, mobile phones, freezers, and other items that are typically discarded by their original owners due to their short lifespan. It contains a number of hazardous constituents that have a negative impact on the environment and, more importantly, human health if not properly managed. Because it includes harmful chemical elements, E-waste proves to be a significant difficulty. Since it is believed that E-waste is a future of communications but due to the short life span of various appliances, they are being trashed and pollutes the environment. Many groups and governments from various nations have implemented a variety of ways to address the problem and threat to the environment and human health. Hence, this review presents a compendium of various sources of E-waste, environmental hazards, its composition and characterization, E-waste scenarios in India and global world. For the sake of the future, techniques of handling and processing, as well as E-waste recycling, should be used. This paper mainly outlines the issue of E-waste also covering the improvement and plan to tackle the issue.

Keywords

• E-waste management
• Environmental pollution
• Human health
• E-waste recycling