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E-waste, battery and hazardous waste

Electronic, battery and hazardous waste: the rules that make producers pay for recycling, recovering metals from old electronics, biomedical waste, ship breaking and the trade in waste. Prelims has asked which substances are released into the environment when old computers are disposed of carelessly.

UPSC has asked

  • Prelims 2013: chromium and other metals released as e-waste

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