TOPIC 9: e-waste recycling-india

Mountains of e-waste (discarded parts of computers, mobile phones and other consumer electronics equipment) are quietly creating a new environmental problem in India. Thirty million computers are thrown out every year in the US alone, and many are dumped in India and China. Some 70% of the heavy metals in landfills come from electrical equipment waste. The old computers contain toxic chemicals in them.These heavy metals and chemicals are released into the environmentm when extraction or recondition is tried.The process of extraction uses all kinds of chemicals, like acids ,which in turn get dumped into the soil and go into the groundwater.Burning things like PVC-covered copper wire, will release very toxic chemicals like dioxins into the local environment.There are also fears that the recycling process, an unregulated industry in India, is also very harmful to the health of those employed to do it.
In particular, the job involves exposure to a number of toxic chemicals both as part of the recycling process and within the computers themselves.
conclusion:it is virtualy impossble to get rid of the computer equipment with out causing some harm to the environment. Therefore manufacturers will have to eliminate such harmful substances inside the machines and reduce the amount of toxic chemicals in the products.