E waste management: A threat to human health and environment

The electronic industry; world's largest and fastest growing manufacturing industry is providing a forceful leverage to socio-economic and technological advancement in the developing society. Hazardous components of E-waste do not decompose or rot away; guise a threat to human health and environment. This paper describes the form of e-waste generated, level of awareness regarding its hazardous effects on human body and environment and e-waste management in the households of the Vadodara city. Data were collected through Simple Random and Stratified Sampling with Equal Allocation and purposive Sampling techniques. A structured questionnaire was provided to the thirty women from the upper middle socio-economic class of the city. Nil difference in the level of awareness concerning the harmful consequences of the E waste components on human body was traced out regardless women's status in the family. Awareness regarding the hazardous components present in the E waste was noticed less than fifty percent which is a matter to worry. Ignorance about the perilous effects of the poisonous components and moderate level of awareness regarding the scientific disposal practices; made them the generators of gigantic quantity of trash causing human and environmental hazards in society.