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Share innovative ideas on circular economy in E-waste

Innovative ideas on circular economy in E-waste
Start Date :
Feb 01, 2022
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Feb 15, 2022
23:45 PM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Innovative ideas on circular economy in E-waste ...

Innovative ideas on circular economy in E-waste

Today, electronic waste poses a significant challenge for society. With the introduction of innovative features and up-gradation, people are changing their devices by discarding the old ones, thereby contributing to the generation of electronic waste significantly.

Replacing the linear systems with circular in electrical and electronic equipment intends to maximize value at each life-cycle stage by reusing, repairing, recovering remanufacturing, regenerating products and material.

Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY) observes Swachhata Pakhwada 2022 from 1st February 2022 to 15th February 2022 promoting ‘E-waste se Raksha- Swachhata hi Suraksha’. Citizens are invited to share their innovative ideas on how circular economy practices can help in sustainable and efficient E-waste Management.

The best entries from the citizens will be identified by the Ministry and will be featured on the MyGov page.

The last date to receive suggestions is 15th February 2022.

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Vinod Kumar Kumawat
Vinod Kumar Kumawat 4 years 5 months ago
Way Forward The transition to a circular economy must take place in a way that benefits all stakeholders from the consumer to workers, government, businesses, entrepreneurs and society at large. EEE waste is considered as one of the rich sources of secondary raw materials and can contribute towards resource security and environmental sustainability. There will be a need for mass collaboration, system changing ideas, new policy frameworks and new ways of doing business.
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Vinod Kumar Kumawat
Vinod Kumar Kumawat 4 years 5 months ago
Ownership of end-of-life materials: Most supply chain organizations lose control of products and raw materials at their respective point of sale. This creates problems while recycling or regeneration at the end of a product’s life.
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Vinod Kumar Kumawat
Vinod Kumar Kumawat 4 years 5 months ago
Challenges in Implementation Improper waste infrastructure: The developing countries like India lack strong waste management infrastructure. Thus, improving waste management and recycling systems could make a big difference. Poor Recycling technology: There is a need for better recycling technology that can maintain quality and purity so that product manufacturers are willing to use recycled wastes. Complex Government regulations: Sometimes, laws and regulations unintentionally incentivize wasteful behavior among companies and consumers. This is a common problem in the food and beverage sector. Value of raw materials: A circular economy still needs to operate within economic boundaries. While there may be differences in environmental impacts between materials, most of the organization’s decision-making will be based on economics and risk.
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Vinod Kumar Kumawat
Vinod Kumar Kumawat 4 years 5 months ago
Social Benefits: Reduced extraction pressures due to adoption of CE measures have the potential to reduce conflict and displacement in mining areas, as well as improve health and welfare of local communities. CE measures can also contribute towards preserving resources for future generations.
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Vinod Kumar Kumawat
Vinod Kumar Kumawat 4 years 5 months ago
Opportunities of Circular Economy Economic Opportunity: The movement towards a circular and resource efficient design has the scope of business savings for businesses. There is a lot of economic value in e-waste, particularly from such materials as gold, silver, copper, platinum and palladium, among others. Enhanced resource availability: In India, lack of domestic reserves and supply of rare earth elements makes a circular economy even more important for a large and growing country like India, where a CE approach provides an opportunity to enhance resource availability for domestic manufacturing. Jobs Creation: Although repair, refurbishment and recycling activities are already undertaken in India, a CE action plan and associated measures towards supporting these activities has the potential to create more jobs. Environmental Benefits: Responsible and circular resource use can also contribute towards reduction of GHG emissions and help meet the climate commitments.
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Vinod Kumar Kumawat
Vinod Kumar Kumawat 4 years 5 months ago
Recycling Systems: Creating systems that enable recycling/dismantling not far from the source of generation, ensure full traceability of materials, recovery of critical materials; ecosystem of secondary material buyers; harmonized tax structures; strong enforcement and publicly available datasets . Secondary Materials Usage: Setting up norms for use of recycled material for new products; Incentives for procurement of products with high recycled content; mandating traceability on utilization of secondary materials; financial incentives/tax breaks for use of secondary materials.
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Vinod Kumar Kumawat
Vinod Kumar Kumawat 4 years 5 months ago
Significance of Circular Economy Raw material security: Raw material security will address sustainable product package/ policy wherein material sourcing can look at addressing reducing GHG emissions, foot-print and reduced pollution. Collection Systems: Creating systems which can result in large scale participation by the people. Systems that bring ease of participation and ensure no leakages of the collected e-waste to the informal sector for recycling. Better product design: The companies need to design products which have a longer product life and are easier to recycle. This may mean multiple things e.g limiting use of multiple types of materials for product creation, eliminating toxicity or any materials of concern, enabling ease of dismantling; decreased product obsolescence and restricting single use.
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Vinod Kumar Kumawat
Vinod Kumar Kumawat 4 years 5 months ago
Need for Circular Economy Fulfills Resource needs: The Rate of extraction of these abiotic resources for EEE manufacturing is significantly higher than the rate of their formation in nature. CE approach will thus be imperative to fulfill the resource needs for the country. Recycling the waste: India is the third most electronic waste (e-waste) generated country (with 3.2 million tonnes in 2019), however, only 10 percent of the waste is collected for recycling. The collection and management of EEE waste remain a key challenge. This necessitates the shift to a more circular approach for the sector.
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Anagha Jayan
Anagha Jayan 4 years 5 months ago
E waste may sound small but is really dangerous. I would like to use and share the principle of reduce , reuse and recycle. 2. The retailers should make consumers aware that once the item or product is damaged ask them to bring it back and give it to them so that it can be disposed safely 3. E disposal waste bins must be added throughout the country and must be disposed of securely. 4. Make people aware that e waste should not be discarded with normal garbage and it may explode and create havoc, destruction and fire injuries to nearby people.
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