E-waste is increasing health risks

'E-waste is growing at 5 to 10 percent rate in the world every year and this waste is not able to recover more than 5 percent annually. Due to the harmful effects of waste for human and environment, e-waste management has become necessary by law now. Increasing use of electronic and electrical products increases the risk of terrible health. E-waste The computers, laptops, mobile phones, photocopiers, microwaves, batteries, etc. have been damaged due to environmental damage and public health.

This was stated by a seminar on 'Legal Framework for E-waste Management: Environment and Public Health Protection' jointly by the Bangladesh Rural Development Committee and Bangladesh Human Rights Forum at Dhaka Reporters Unity at Segunbagich, capital on Wednesday. Presenting the keynote paper at the seminar, AKM Maksud

AKM Maksud writes in his article various aspects of municipal waste and e-waste management of Bangladesh, people engaged in waste management and their inhuman life, waster in the national economy, waste workers in the national economy, waste management staff of the city corporation and recycling staff, existing legal and municipal and e-waste management Legal framework for the future development of structures and municipal and e-waste management What specifically needs to be briefed on it.

It is said in the seminar that e-waste is more harmful than any common municipal waste. Without proper and safe e-waste disposal, it creates a health risk. The harmful substances in e-waste such as ladders, cadmium, chromium, brominated Fleming, berillium, antimony, polyvinyl chloride (PVC), mercury or mercury, arsenic, polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) etc. are harmful to humans, which are harmful to soil, water and air.

According to the meeting, the United Nations University's Step Initiative, according to the data, in 2012, 45.6 million tons of the world and 93.5 million tons of e-waste in 2016 was created.