...has created a photo series called "E-wasteland," a graphic look at the toxic effects of electronic waste on India's land and its people.

Every year, Sophie writes, 20 to 50 million tons of electronic waste are generated worldwide.

India has become one of the world's largest dumping grounds for eWaste. eWaste is highly toxic. It contains...

• lead,
• cadmium,
• mercury,
• tin,
• gold,
• copper,
• PVC and
• brominated, chlorinated and phosphorus based flame retardants.

Many of these heavy metals and contaminants are extremely harmful to humans as well as to animals and plants.

The Basel Convention, of which the UK and India are signatories, bans the transportation of hazardous or toxic waste from the developed world to developing countries.

This illegal toxic trade is, therefore, in direct violation.

Visit E-wasteland: The growing problem of e-waste in India at http://www.sophiegerrard.com/SophieStoriesEwaste1.html.