It gets worse. “There are two major sources of e-waste: domestic markets, and illegal waste dumping from countries such as the US, European Union and south east Asia,” . Although India is a signatory of the Basel convention that bans the movement of hazardous waste from developed to developing nations, that hasn’t stopped a flood of old monitors, motherboards and MP3 players from being dumped in India. Even just the domestically produced e-waste is becoming a major problem., “A new report by the GTZ (an enterprise owned by the German government that specializes in technical cooperation for sustainable development), says that India produces 3.3 lakh tons of ewaste in a year. According to earlier data, we produce 800 tons of e-waste a day.”
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