According to a report of United Nations Environment , developing countries like India, China and South Africa may have to suffer serious consequences by 2020 if they won’t take strict action to stop the alarming growth rate of electronic waste.

According to UN, By 2020, the size of electronic waste from mobile phones will be 18 times more and the electronic waste from computers will be five times more than 2007. E-waste from Discarded refrigerators and televisions will also become double or triple than the current amount.

The report estimates that India’s current e-waste generation is: 2.75 lakh tonnes from TVs, over one lakh tonnes from refrigerators, 56,300 tonnes from personal computers, 1,700 tonnes from mobiles and 4,700 from printers.

Related posts:

1. Tata Motors – No Increase in Nano Prices Tata Motors today announced that they would deliver all outstanding...
2. Increase of Swine Flue Cases in Haryana and Punjab With sudden Dip in mercury levels in various parts of...
3. Mission Clean Ganga By 2020 After the Failure of “Ganga Action Plan” Centre Government has...
4. China trying to hack Indian PMO emails Google allegations of Chinese Government trying hacking the email accounts...
5. McLaren MP4 12C Sports Cars Coming To India If you are die hard Fan of Formula 1 cars...