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Abstract- Electronics industry is the world’s largest and fastest growing manufacturing industry. But the increase in sales of electronic equipments and their rapid obsolescence such as advancement in technology, change in fashion, style and status has resulted in generation of electronic waste which is popularly known as E-waste. E-waste contains many hazardous components that may negatively impact the environment and adversely affect human health if not properly managed. E-waste problem is of global concern due to the production and disposal of waste in a globalized world. In India, e-waste management has greater significance not only due to the generation of its own e-waste but also because of the dumping of e-waste from developed countries. This is coupled with India’s lack of appropriate infrastructure and procedures for its disposal and recycling. The challenge is to develop innovative and cost- effective solutions to decontaminate polluted environments due to E-waste , to make them safe for human habitation and consumption, and to protect the functioning of the ecosystems which support life. This paper discusses the different categories of E-waste, categorization of different hazardous components present in e-waste, methods of E-waste management and an innovative bioremediation technologies which have become an eco-friendly and fruitful method to conventional clean up technologies to decontaminate e-waste from the soil-water environment, the challenges in which India is facing for the management of E-waste and suggestion for a formal method of E-waste recycling in India.

Index Terms - E-waste management, recycling, hazardous components, formal method, cost-effective solution, bioremediation

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1 INTRODUCTION

The production of electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) is one of the fastest growing global manufacturing activities. Rapid economic growth, urbanization and a growing demand for consumer goods, leads to the consumption and the production of EEE. E-waste comprises of wastes generated from used electronic devices and house hold appliances which are not fit for their original intended use and are destined for recovery, recycling or disposal(MoEF 2008).The Indian information technology(IT) industry has been one of the major drivers of change in the economy in the last decade and has contributed significantly to the digital revolution being experienced by the world(J. Zhang, X- J.Liang,2012et al ,Anwesha Borthakur,2012,S.B Wath,2010,Shalabh Agarwal ,2014). Even though electronic applications have infiltrated every aspect of our daily lives, such as comfort, health ,security ,easy information, data acquisition, the knowledge society is creating its own toxic footprints. As per D. Sinha- Khetriwal et al,(2005), while we are having some of the world’s most advanced high-tech software and hardware developing facilities, India’s recycling sector can be called medieval.
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