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Components of E-Waste Management

The major components of e-waste management are:

How to handle E-Wastes

At macro-level, there are two ways to handle the E-Wastes. They are

1. Disposal

The anatomical architecture of computers are that, parts of micro-processor, computer chip, monitor, circuit board, molded plastics make-up that gleam, think pad / PC. At atomic level, the array of chemical constituents that make-up the computers are the trail of lead and cadmium, barium, poly-chlorinated biphenyl, etc. De-facto horror is that they all release highly toxic dioxins and furans under its own unfavorable conditions. Land-filling E-waste, one of the most widely used methods of disposal, is prone to hazards because of leach ate which often contains heavy water resources. Even state-of-the-art landfills are sealed to the long-term. Older landfill sites and uncontrolled dumps pose a much greater danger of releasing hazardous emissions.

2. Recycling

Specialized electronic recyclers strip-off essential re-usable components and incinerate the left-overs in smelters. However, the end product is a metal stream, which is worth some money, based on the composition of the metals. It's got a lot of steel, aluminum and copper. The scrapped chunks could be recycled / used, but it's the least preferred, since the cost of recycling is not free. Either the producer should inflate the cost of greener-product or the government should provide subsidiaries for it. That's not a commercial equation which could be marketed since it's not a producer's responsibility to give ultra-green products at a marketable cost. Added to that, due to regulations and pollution laws, it's often cheaper to export the scrap to third world / needy countries where such laws, if they exist at all, are more lax than those in Canada and the United States. Cool, collect resourceful metals from the amalgamation of scraps! There are number of countries that make a huge business in the processing, recycling, smelting and disassembling of electronics, and pathetically, it is done in an environmentally unfriendly manner.

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Prof. R. Umamaheswari has completed her B. Com., in 1995 and her M. Com., in 1997 from N. G. M. College, Pollachi affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. She did her MBA (Finance & Marketing) in Karpagam Arts & Science College, Coimbatore in 1999. She is qualified with 2 Mphils i.e. M. Phil. (Commerce) and M. Phil. (Management. Currently she is doing her Ph. D. in H. H. Rajahs College, Pudukkotai. She took up her first career as Assistant Financial manager at Sree Balaji Chemicals, Pollachi (April 1999-May 2000). Then she shifted towards academics and working as faculty of management in UG and PG levels at Sree Saraswathi Thyagaraja College from June 2000 to till date. She has also participated and presented papers in many seminars and conferences conducted in National and International levels.