E-waste Toxic Contents: Contains dangerous materials like mercury, lead, cadmium, and brominated flame retardants, which are harmful to human health and ecosystems.

Environmental Pollution:

Improper disposal (landfills, burning) releases toxins into soil, water, and air, affecting wildlife and human health, especially children and pregnant women.

Resource Depletion:

Throws away valuable resources like gold, silver, copper, and rare metals that could be recovered through proper recycling.

Growing Volume:

It's the world's fastest-growing solid waste stream due to rapid technological advancement and short product lifecycles. Worldwide, the annual generation of e-waste is rising by 2.6 million tonnes annually, on track to reach 82 million tonnes by 2030, a further 33% increase from the 2022 figure.

The global E-waste Monitor 2024, According to UN:

Electronic Waste Rising Five Times Faster than Documented E-waste Recycling. The report foresees a drop in the documented collection and recycling rate from 22.3% in 2022 to 20% by 2030 due to the widening difference in recycling efforts relative to the staggering growth of e-waste generation worldwide. The report underlines that if countries could bring the e-waste collection and recycling rates to 60% by 2030, the benefits – including through minimizing human health risks – would exceed costs by more than US $38 billion.