E-waste awareness Drive

“E-Waste Management Awareness to the Society”drive was conducted by staff members ( Dr. Mehmood Sayyad, Asst. Prof. Dipti Joshi and Asst. Prof. Snehal More) of Department of Statistics, Abeda Inamdar Senior College of Arts, Science and Commerce ,Pune.
Students of Science faculty actively participated in this activity.

In this drive we conducted survey about awareness of people in managing E-waste generated at home. We reached up to 220 families and created awareness about health hazards of E-waste, Government Policies of E-waste Management and Recycling of E-waste.

Also Collection of E-waste was possible with active support of our students.E-waste collected was sent to "SWACH PUNE SEVA SAHAKARI LTD." which is Autonomous Cooperative Enterprise of Waste Collectors authorized by Pune Municipal Corporation to provide door step waste collection service.

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Effects of heavy metals in the e-waste on Human Health:

When cell phones are improperly recycled or end up in landfills, it ultimately causes negative effects to nearly every system in the human body. Mobile phones contain harmful toxins including lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, chlorine and bromine, which can leak into the groundwater and bioaccumulate in the food chain causing detrimental damage to the soil, water supply, vegetation, animals and humans.

Lead :  cause damage to the reproductive, blood and nervous systems.Mercury :  Mercury exposure contributes to brain and kidney damage.Arsenic : In high doses, arsenic poisoning is lethal. Low levels of exposure cause negative impacts on skin, liver, nervous and respiratory systems.Cadmium :  It has also been linked to kidney damage.Chlorine :  Exposure to improperly disposed chlorine causes tissue damage and the destruction of cell structure.Bromine Studies have shown that bromine contributes to the disruption in the thyroid hormone balance, brain damage and cancer.

E-Waste in India...

Abstract:

The massive generation of e-waste has created a new e-waste stream in the country containing obsolete, WEEE (waste from electrical and electronic equipment) discarded after their intended uses. The innovation, dynamism in product design and globalization replacing these equipments in very duration and made it fast growing waste in the world. WEEE comes under a special category of waste which is the result of industrialization and ever increasing demand of electronic products in daily life. The situation is alarming as a huge quantity of waste is generated by India as well as other countries. In India about 80 percent of the e-waste generated in the US is exported to India, China and Pakistan. Only 3% of total WEEE-waste generated is recycled properly in India. The rest of it is handled by workers who work with bare hands, without masks under unhygienic conditions, informally recycling tons of e-waste for about 12-14 hours a day. It causes both environmental as well as health problems. The formal e-waste collection from all sources is ambiguous. E-waste contains a good amount of valuable recyclable materials also and has potential to become lucrative business in the country.

from 16th Aug 2015 we started with the community project.

"E- waste Management Awareness to the Society".

I am currently doing a personal development programme called Self Expression and Leadership Program or SELP at Pune which is the last one in Curriculum of Living by Landmark Worldwide Breakthrough Technologies Pvt. Ltd. While doing this program I became to the possibility of Health and Hygine and I also became present to a want of Humanity to stand for Sustainability of Environment and Quality of Life for forthcoming generation of Children. I got inspired to take up a project with by colleagues in the college to further this cause by creating this project called GreenIT Pune. Currently I have three leaders and more than one hundred students contributing to the project. Its expanding further.

 Me , my colleagues and my students started with this awareness project about E-waste.E-Waste (Electronic Waste) "Electronic waste" may be defined as discarded computers, office electronic equipment, entertainment device electronics, mobile phones, television sets, and refrigerators   

Electronic waste are hazards to human health and the environment if improperly managed.The heavy metals and some of the other materials can become hazards to human health and the environment when they are improperly disposed.