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E-Waste in India: A grey story
Guest contributor, Arjun Mehta, Manager at Sims Recycling
Solutions India, reflects on the critical need of the hour in developing a
sustainable model for e-waste management & recovery.
With
improving purchasing power, availability of technology and the sheer need for
advancement, India is seeing a radical growth in the consumption of
electronics. The pace at which technology is evolving is rendering electronic
devices obsolete way before their theoretical end of life, adding to our
country’s ever-growing junk pile of end-of-life electronics.
It’s not just the producer’s responsibility to recycle their
electronics, but also the consumer’s to give them away; to give dead
electronics a new beginning.
How big a
problem is e-waste in India? We generate almost a million tons each year. The
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) stated that India generated 0.8 million
tons (mt) of e-waste in 2012, a staggering jump from 0.15 mt in 2005. Various
studies have pegged the 2018 levels to be over 2 mt, narrating a rather grey
story of the scenario in India. Globally, the volume of e-waste is predicted to
grow 33% in five years to reach 65.4 mt, according to the UNEP. For More Info Please click on the link :
http://www.sustainabilityoutlook.in/content/e-waste-india-grey-story-0
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