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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
Last Date :
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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Vishal Khandelwal
Vishal Khandelwal 4 years 5 months ago
However, the formal sector recycling is limited to manual sorting and mechanical dismantling of e-waste management in India. At present, there is a lack of industrial e-waste managers with an appropriate environmental controls, which are required for large-scale recovery of precious and base metals.  A few emerging Indian companies extract metals from e-waste, but they have limited processing capacity. Most of the e-waste processed by a formal sector is exported from other countries with the necessary large-scale infrastructure for metals extraction. In contrast, the informal sector extracts metals using methods such as open-air incineration and acid leaching, which are hazardous and exacerbate environmental pollution and health risks.
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Vishal Khandelwal 4 years 5 months ago
However, the formal sector recycling is limited to manual sorting and mechanical dismantling of e-waste management in India. At present, there is a lack of industrial e-waste managers with an appropriate environmental controls, which are required for large-scale recovery of precious and base metals.  A few emerging Indian companies extract metals from e-waste, but they have limited processing capacity. Most of the e-waste processed by a formal sector is exported from other countries with the necessary large-scale infrastructure for metals extraction. In contrast, the informal sector extracts metals using methods such as open-air incineration and acid leaching, which are hazardous and exacerbate environmental pollution and health risks.
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Vishal Khandelwal 4 years 5 months ago
However, the formal sector recycling is limited to manual sorting and mechanical dismantling of e-waste management in India. At present, there is a lack of industrial e-waste managers with an appropriate environmental controls, which are required for large-scale recovery of precious and base metals.  A few emerging Indian companies extract metals from e-waste, but they have limited processing capacity. Most of the e-waste processed by a formal sector is exported from other countries with the necessary large-scale infrastructure for metals extraction. In contrast, the informal sector extracts metals using methods such as open-air incineration and acid leaching, which are hazardous and exacerbate environmental pollution and health risks.
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Vishal Khandelwal 4 years 5 months ago
Poor Infrastructure for the Recycling of E-waste India has very limited infrastructure capacity for large-scale management of e-waste. There are very few governments approved e-waste recycling centers in the country, which only constitutes about 1/5th of the total amount of e-waste generated each year.  The Indian Government offers the co-funded grant scheme that covers between 25% to 50% of the project costs for the e-waste management facilities and building capacity for e-waste businesses. However, the uptake of this scheme has been very limited. In addition, there is also a shortage of formally approved e-waste recycling centers as presently existing centers operate far below their capacity due to poorly organized supply chains between them and the majority of informal sector collectors of e-waste in India.
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Vishal Khandelwal 4 years 5 months ago
The heavy reliance on an informal sector for e-waste recycling gives rise to these key challenges, as mention below: First, the attempt to impose financial penalties on non-compliance or violation of e-waste handling and processing rules is ineffective. Second, broader public knowledge regarding market prices and health safety costs of e-waste recycling is less because less paid workers who do this work do not have proper training.  Third, despite the massive increase in the volume of e-waste generated every year, there is very little investment by large-scale industrial infrastructure for recovery and recycling.
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Vishal Khandelwal 4 years 5 months ago
E-waste recycles in India is predominantly an informal sector activity. There are thousands of poor households eking a living from scavenging materials from waste dumps.  The common recycling practices for middle-class urban households, particularly for waste paper, plastic, clothing, or metal, is to sell out to small-scale, informal sector buyers often known as ‘kabadiwalas,’ and they further sort and sell these as an input material to artisanal or industrial processors.
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Vishal Khandelwal 4 years 5 months ago
waste poses the huge risk to humans, animals, and the environment. E-waste typically consists of plastics, metals, cathode ray tubes (CRTs), printed cables, circuit boards, and so on. The valuable metals like copper, silver, gold, and platinum can be reused from e-wastes once they are scientifically processed. The presence of toxic substances like liquid crystal, lithium, mercury, nickel, selenium, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), arsenic, barium, brominates flame retardants, cadmium, chrome, cobalt, copper, and lead makes it very hazardous, in case e-waste get dismantled and processed in a crude manner with the rudimentary techniques.  The computers, mainframes, servers, monitors, printers, scanners, compact discs (CDs), copiers, calculators, battery cells, cellular phones, fax machines, transceivers, TVs, medical apparatus, iPods, refrigerators, washing machines, and air conditioners are examples of e-waste when they become unfit for its use. The presence of highly toxic substances
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Vishal Khandelwal 4 years 5 months ago
In many developed countries, e-waste management is given high priority. In contrast, in developing countries, it is exacerbated by completely adopting or replicating developed countries’ e-waste management and several related problems, including a lack of investment and technically skilled human resources. In addition, there is a lack of infrastructure and the absence of appropriate legislation, specifically dealing with e-waste. Also, there is an inadequate description of stakeholders’ and institutions‘ roles and responsibilities involved in e-waste management, etc.
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Vishal Khandelwal 4 years 5 months ago
Consumers are the key to better e-waste management in India. Initiatives such as Extended Producer Responsibility; Design for Environment; (3Rs) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle technology platform for linking the market facilitating the circular economy aim to encourage consumers to correctly dispose of the e-waste, with an increased reuse and recycling rates, and also adopt sustainable consumer habits.
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Vishal Khandelwal 4 years 5 months ago
Electronic waste, as known as e-waste, is generated when any electronic or electrical equipment becomes unfit for the intended use or if it has crossed its expiry date. Due to rapid technological advancements and the production of newer electronic equipment, the old ones get easily replaced with new models. It has particularly led to an exponential increase in e-waste in India. People tend to switch to the newer models and trending technologies; also, the lives of products get reduced with time. But the issue is left with e-waste management in India and its challenges.
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