E-waste: Be a little friendly to our only HOME

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguisable from magic" - Arthur C. Clarke True, isn't it? I've always marvelled at technologies such as the television (TV), computers, cellular phones, portable music gadgets, CD, DVD, Blue-ray, and so on, the list is endless. But never have I wondered about what happens to them, or where they go, when they become kaputt and obsolete. I came across a scientific journal on e-waste where it was mentioned that more than 45 million tonnes of electronic gadgets are discarded worldwide, well, eventually piling up as e-wastes - just like our mountainous garbage and filth that gets piled up at a remote place far from our cities. I was just watching this movie 'Wall-E', and the very sight of visualizing our planet earth covered with garbage made me feel that this might one day become reality. If you have seen the movie, the director and the artists would've given a brown tinge to our garbage filled earth - phew! I just don't want to see our earth in such a sorry state. Some important links to initiatives inside...