With the advent of technology and their expansion in developing nations, urban areas of Bangladesh has also been facing growing hazards from electronic wastes, better known as e-waste, from disposals of used electronic devices, reports BSS.
Electrical and electronics products such as used mobile phones, disposed off batteries, chargers, televisions, computers, laptops, printers, toners, energy saving bulbs and tube lights have posed a serious threat to city environment, claimed an environment protection agency here.
The Save the Environment Movement (POBA) in a press release yesterday said they would hold a roundtable in capital city today to discuss the issue of major concern and propose some solutions before the policymakers.
It said the indiscriminate disposal of e-waste has been causing a major damage to soil, water and air of the over populated capital city as well as other major cities and towns in Bangladesh.