The document is a seminar report on e-waste by Deshmukh Priyanka. It discusses how e-waste is defined as discarded electronic devices, notes that computers have an average lifespan of less than two years which leads to rapid obsolescence. It then discusses some of the toxic materials commonly found in electronics like lead, cadmium, and mercury, and the health and environmental risks they pose. The report also covers waste management concepts like the waste hierarchy of reduce, reuse, recycle and resource recovery from waste materials. It concludes that electronic products should be considered chemical waste due to their toxicity and numbers, and calls for designing cleaner computer products.