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Electronic waste is accounted as a rapidly expanding class of hazardous solid waste across the world. The inappropriate handling of techniques for electronic waste management and a higher potency to cause environmental pollution as well as human health hazards result in a global predicament. Curtailing the existing electronic waste management issue is possible through “sustainable consumption and production” that entails countries to necessitate vital transformation for their societies to produce and consume goods. This is accomplished by collaborative participation of governments, international organizations, commercial enterprises, and individuals to revolutionize flawed consumption and production patterns. This chapter will present e-waste scenarios and provide information about the hazardous materials found in them followed by their impact on health and environment. Waste electrical and electronic equipment management in developed and developing countries (precisely, India) will be explored along with befitting avenues concerned with recyclable components utilizing extended producer responsibility resulting in the development of a circular economy. The current position of e-waste industry will be appraised to inspect the challenges associated with e-waste recycling including unlawful e-waste trade-in from developed countries and casual discarding causing grave environmental harm.
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Barapatre, S., Rastogi, M. (2022). e-Waste Management: A Transition Towards a Circular Economy. In: Baskar, C., Ramakrishna, S., Baskar, S., Sharma, R., Chinnappan, A., Sehrawat, R. (eds) Handbook of Solid Waste Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4230-2_68
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