The usage of electronic devices increased rapidly. The over-usage of electronic devices always led to a huge amount of waste in the form of electronic products like monitors, wires, discs, etc. e-waste is hazardous, involving things containing toxic components that are dangerous to human health, such as mercury, lead, cadmium, polybrominated flame retardants, barium, and lithium. The negative health effects of these toxins on humans include brain, heart, liver, kidney, and skeletal system damage. Every organization follows a throwback policy of dumping all these electronic wastes into the environment. This chapter proposes some tips and tricks on how to recycle hazardous e-wastes into beautiful reusable products, and methods for the distribution of these objects by creating an e-waste management system.
TopIntroduction
E-waste is the abbreviation term for the various electrical and electronic types of equipment or components that are reaching the end of their working life. Computers, TV sets, cables or wires, batteries, thermometers, toys, etc. are some common products included in this category. These are also called “e-scrap” or “end-of-life electronics”. Nowadays, the usage of electrical and electronic devices increased rapidly. This over usage of electronic devices always led to a huge amount of waste in the form of monitors, wires, discs, etc. (Misra, 2021).
E-waste is hazardous containing toxic components that are dangerous to human health, such as mercury, lead, cadmium, polybrominated flame retardants, barium, and lithium (Zeng, 2022); (Frazzoli, 2022); (Chakraborty, 2022); (Roy, 2022); (Lin, 2022). The negative health effects of these toxins on humans include brain, heart, liver, kidney, and skeletal system damage. Every organization follows a throwback policy of dumping all these electronic wastes into the environment. Figure 1 shows a dump of computer wastes accumulated on the roadside. To reduce the scale of this great horrible pollution route, we must turn to the recycling and reusing habits of these products.
The main mantra for e-waste management is “Reduce, Recycle, Reuse (RRR)”. This chapter proposes some beautiful tips and tricks to recycle computer waste, one of the main contributors of e-waste in this digital era, and then sell them through online platforms by developing an e-waste management system (EMS).
The main objective of the system is to efficiently control the throwback policy of electronic waste to the environment. Even though there are many government-approved well-established centers to collect e-waste, these systems don’t give any provision to mention what they are doing with the collected electronic waste. The proposed work, an e-waste management system is mainly focused to collect electronic waste from nearby areas and convert or recycle it into a useful one. This system will help an individual to sell his/her electronic waste at a few prices and can purchase new or recycled computer parts or crafts that are made from electronic waste.
Figure 1. e-waste dumped on the roadside
TopBackground
The amount of e-waste is increasing day by day and studies reported that Asia ranked top in the generation of e-waste at about 24.9 Mt, followed by America, Europe, etc. (Forti V., 2020). Even though e-waste contains various toxic and hazardous components, it also contains precious platinum metals and non-metals (Murthy, 2022). e-waste management sectors include formal sectors like government agencies with licenses and informal sectors that collect e-waste from the doorstep (Sengupta, 2022).