What happens when your phone too old to use and is worth nothing to resale? as PC and mobile numbers in continue grow in India, it's no surprise that old phones and computers goes into the trash as well. And that's the problem because of most of these made with huge number of chemicals that make disposing of electronic waste an ugly challenge.
As per the research paper titled "e-waste in India" which presented in Indian Rajyasabha in 2011 that india generated around 4 lakh tonnes of electronic waste in 2010, raises up from 1.45 lakh tonnes in 2005.
From total volume of e-waste 68 percent from televisions and 27 percent from servers and computers. The Maharashtra state leading in e-waste generation followed by Tamilandu. Among the cities Mumbai and Delhi are in top two places.
The question here is "IS THERE ANY LAWS IN THE DISPOSAL OF E-WASTE OR NOT?". Don't doubt about it there has
been laws for several years ,but the problem is in its implementation. The e-waste(Management and Handling) Rules 2010 came into effect on May 1, 2012 and clearly states manufactures must take responsibility to recycling their end-of-life products.But very few of the manufactures came forward and take the responsibility to recycling their products and provision for the reduction of harmful substances.
been laws for several years ,but the problem is in its implementation. The e-waste(Management and Handling) Rules 2010 came into effect on May 1, 2012 and clearly states manufactures must take responsibility to recycling their end-of-life products.But very few of the manufactures came forward and take the responsibility to recycling their products and provision for the reduction of harmful substances.
e-waste contains some of the most harmful chemicals and metals like polychlorinated biphenyls and chlorofluorocarbons and some of halogenic components.We find these harmful substances in " computer peripherals, batteries, fluorescent lamps, CRT, data tapes and others"
The big issue right now is the producers have not created end-of-life collection centres and recycling centres. But a project founded by Abhishek ,who works with JDA software in Hyderabad and believe that reusing products till their true end-of-life will help reduce the e-waste problem taking the responsibility to connect the donor who want to donate a old PC and a recipient after conforming the request is genuine. Till now over 5 years they helped to donate 500 computers.
There are some private sector initiatives are also trying to reduce this problem in bigger scale, such as Attero recycling plant in Roorkee which is registered as recycling plant by Government of India.
But these product contain very harmful chemicals and metals the current disposal methods of burning and acid bath treatment is very hazardous.Instead of collecting from consumers they are collecting the e-waste from the companies.First they are manually separated into the type of e-waste and then taken to metal extraction plant where the metals are removed from the electro-refining,patented hydro-metallurgy process.It recycled over 719,084 mobiles so far.
In conclusion, there need joint efforts of consumers and the producers to keep the environment healthy and to avoid the severe natural environmental problems.
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