Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Continued…..
MANUAL DISMANTLING&SORTING
REFINING &CONDITIONING
FINAL DISPOSAL
METAL RECYCLING
Magnetic Separator
Pretreatment
Reductant
Reverberatory
Soft Pb furnace
Reductant Slag
Blast furnace
Hard Pb
75%-80%Pb
Refining
Process flow diagram for Copper recovery
Pretreatment
Converter
Blister Cu:95% Cu
Electrolytic refinery
Precious metals
Cathode Cu99.9% Cu
Manually removing warnish Recovery of copper from acid
Manual segregation
Scrap iron addition
Copper extraction
Precious metals recovery
Leach
Smelter
Gold,palladium,platinum
The impact of e-waste may be broadly
classified into two categories:
Downstream Impacts:
Upstream Impacts:
Regulations
•Hazardous Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 1989/2000/2002
•MoEF Guidelines for Management and Handling of Hazardous
Wastes,1991
•Guidelines for Safe Road Transport of Hazardous Chemicals,1995
•The Public Liability Act, 1991
•Batteries (Management and Handling) Rules, 2001
•The National Environmental Tribunal Act, 1995
•Bio-Medical Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 1998
•Municipal Solid Wastes (Management and Handling) Rules, 2000 and 2002
•Unfortunately, none of these regulations deal directly and specifically with
e-waste.
Management Options
References
Mayfield, Kendra. E-waste: The Dark Side of Digital Age. Retrieved on February 10th,
2005 from http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57151,00.html
Tong, X. Global Mandate, National Policies and Local Responses : Scale Conflicts in
Chinafs Management of Imported E-Waste. Retrieved on February 10th, 2005 from
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/9100/28876/01299716.pdf?tp=&arnumber=1299716&isnu
mber=28876&arSt=204&ared=207&arAuthor=Tong%2C+X.%3B
Mayers, France, et al. The use and disposal of IT products within commercial markets
(2002). Retrieved on February 10th, 2005 from
http://miranda.emeraldinsight.com/vl=4871512/cl=71/nw=1/rpsv/~1101/v17n5/s2/p357
Richards, B. Environmental Management in Electronics Manufacturing. Retrieved on
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6120/v23n4/s4/p16
What is E-Waste? Retrieved on February 10th, 2005 from
http://www.ciwmb.ca.gov/Electronics/WhatisEwaste/
E-waste Crisis: Around the corner (Toxic Links). Retrieved on February 10th, 2005 from
http://www.indiatogether.org/2003/may/env-ewaste.htm
Electronic Waste: A New Challenge for a new Millennium (2001). Retrieved on February
10th, 2005 from http://www.deq.state.ne.us/Newslett.nsf/pages/Sum01-4a
Report on Asia-Pacific Regional Expert Group Meeting on E-Wastes (22-23 June, 2000).