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E-pollutants from e-waste Electronic waste - an emerging threat to the environment of urban India www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Santhanam Heedhidasan Melvin Samuel Ramalingam Chidambaram a. Summary Narrative          This article talks about their growing e-waste problem from country of India. In year 2006 has generated about 0.2 million tons of e-waste and in 2010 it is about 0.4 million tons the total e-waste from both households and corporate will reach 0.5 to 0.6 million tons by 2013 - 2014. There are only two formal recyclers in the Chennai and in the Bagalone for the whole of South India and in western India there is only one. In manual recycling operatonsof thier e-waste over 1 million people in India are involved and most of them are poor meaning they lack of awareness on how their job so dangerous they might contaminate by the chemicals of those e-waste. They not even wearing a gloves for protection that may affect their health and their environment. b. I learned that tec