Appears that we do more than export jobs to India, we also outsource our e-waste!
Bangalore faces e-waste hazards
“E-waste is like slow poison. After 50 years what will happen to our environment?” asks the Pollution Board chairman, S Bhoomanand Manay, calling for a concerted effort by both government and private agencies to tackle the menace.
“Most of the industry, especially the IT companies, are vaguely aware of the problems of e-waste,” says Mr Manay.
In another irony of outsourcing IT, read this older article from the BBC: India’s silicon valley faces IT exodus. In it the author reports that multinational IT businesses are threatening Bangalore’s municipal government with a pullout if it doesn’t “improve the roads, manage unruly traffic, improve power supply and expedite building of flyovers, hotels and an international airport near the city limits”. Of course, the very economic structure that attracts businesses to this area doesn’t provide sufficient taxes to improve the municipal infrastructure.
in long term E-waste might occur big problem , what i think Government and industries of the place together work on this issue , together they perform well to resolve the issue.