In view of the growing concerns of e-waste management across the globe, in particular the developing countries of Asia, the Secretariat of Basel Convention, under the project on Environmentally Sound Management of e-Waste in Asia Pacific, supported 10 Asian countries. India, a signatory to the Basel Convention, has initiated several programs on e-waste management. However, there is a need for rationalising the inventorisation process, increased awareness on e-waste management among stakeholders and analysis of possible partnership models to promote environmentally sound management (ESM) of e-waste.

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Basel Convention Regional Centre for South‐East Asia (BCRC‐SEA) in cooperation with the Secretariat of the Basel Convention (SBC) has developed this Technical Guidelines for Inventory of Electrical and Electronic Waste. This Technical Guidelines Development Project is funded by the Government of Japan through the Basel Convention Trust Fund.

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The objective of this Project is to perform preliminary inventory on electronic and electrical waste in Indonesia as the initial step for developing national inventory system on e-waste which is going to be a part of national inventory of hazardous waste in Indonesia. The result of this project is expected to support Indonesia in implementing environmentally sound management for electrical and electronic waste.

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E-waste is a growing concern in South America. Since 2000, the use of personal computers in the region grows around 15% a year. Furthermore, ITU figures show Brazil and Argentina to be among the 25 countries with the most personal computers in the world. A better assessment of the production of e-waste in the region is key to assisting national authorities to respond to this emerging issue through the development of new environmental regulations, the building of partnerships with industry and the consideration of policies on life-cycle approach, integrated waste management and cooperation and sharing of information at the regional level.

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In last a few years, the environmentally unsound way of E-waste was clearly identified in the certain cities in the Asian countries that E-waste was imported as second-hand products into the cities, dismantled under the environmentally unsound way and caused the serious adverse effects to human health and the environment. The residents in the cities are not aware that the existing manual methods to dismantle E-waste is caused the adverse effects to themselves, despite the fact that the governmental or municipal authorities have barely undertaken some measures, e.g. the preparation of the regulations.

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