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| MK_E-WASTE_005 E-waste has become the fastest growing waste stream in the world. The UN Enviroment Developed nations dump e-waste in developing Asian countries (India, Bangladesh, China and Pakistan) through illegal trade routes. India receives as much e-waste as it generates internally (approximately 145,000 tones each year). Almost all of it, is being recycled in many poor urban localions exposing people and environment to hazardous heavy metals and deadly toxins such as lead, cadmium, beryllium and BFR (Brominated Flame Retardants). Almost all electronic and electrical appliances, like computers, mobile phones, iPods, refrigerators, washing machines, televisions etc, constitute e-waste after being discarded. These products are stripped down to yield valuable metals like platinum, gold and copper///20y Sharukh (L) and 22y Shaddam (R) collect the brass, after dismantling computers in an informal recycling unit in Seelampur, one of the main recycling areas in new Delhi.
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