India’s E-Waste Crisis: Human, Environmental, and Supply Chain Impacts
Along the banks of the sacred river Ganges, a thousand discarded refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, and phones are carried downstream. Waters revered for purity and renewal now carry the weight of charred circuit boards, tangled wires, and shattered motherboards. It is a stark portrait of India’s reality as the world’s third-largest producer of electronic waste, generating more than 3.4 million tonnes each year.