| This was expected to take unmanageable proportion in the years to come, a study conducted by the Centre for Quality Management System has indicated. |
| These figures for Delhi and Hyderabad was 1,700 tonnes per year each. |
| "Every day nearly 1000 computers and 1,400 cell phone sets are being sold in India amounting to 7,000 tonnes per year of e-waste and that too in major cities only," explained Sadhan Ghosh, professor, Centre for Quality Management system, Jadavpur University. |
| Recent statistics show that the e-waste only in Kolkata and Siliguri is more than 65 tonnes. |
| When the 500 million computers currently used the world over are scrapped as waste it would generate 0.29 million tonnes of plastic, 72 kilo tonnes of lead, 0.5 kilo tonnes of cadmium, 00.8 kilo tonnes of chromium and 0.29 kilo tonnes of mercury. |
| "This would require great awareness and a composite waste management policy to handle as it means large numbers," he added. |
| According to unconfirmed reports as much as 30,000 tonnes of e-waste is dumped into India, Pakistan and China from developed countries despite the Basel Convention that bars export of e-waste to other countries, he added. |
| To start creating awareness, the Centre for Quality Management System (CQMS) has organised a national symposium on 'e-waste management- setting the future' at the Jadavpur University on February 17. |
| CQMS is also working on creation of technologies for effective handling of wastes and formulating draft guidelines for adoption by governments and manufacturing companies in the future. |
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