Joint efforts needed to reduce e-waste

The ever-growing production of electronic devices is creating a tsunami of e-waste. That is the stark warning from the United Nations whose Global E-waste Monitor 2020 reports that e-waste is the world’s fastest-growing domestic waste stream. It said a record 53.6 million metric tonnes (Mt) of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019 - an increase of 21[%] in just five years, expected to almost double to 74 million Mt a year by 2030.