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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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SUTHAHAR P 4 years 2 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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SUTHAHAR P 4 years 2 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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SUTHAHAR P 4 years 2 months ago
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 and heavy metals like mercury, lead, beryllium, and cadmium pose a significant threat to an environment even in minute quantities.
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SUTHAHAR P 4 years 2 months ago
E-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.
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SUTHAHAR P 4 years 2 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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SUTHAHAR P 4 years 2 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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SUTHAHAR P 4 years 2 months ago
A key aspect of the initiative is that the team will deploy a detection system that uses a combination of image processing and natural language processing techniques to extract product information and upload it to the database. Once significant data sets are available, the team would advance towards deploying machine learning capabilities to ensure easy retrieval and proper indexing of the products to reflect the users’ perspective and the relevant aspects of the processes. The initiative will, among other things, focus on forging collaborations and influencing the stakeholders in the informal markets who are primary users / buyers of used electronic goods and sellers of electronic spares, ICT components, and electronic equipment.
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SUTHAHAR P 4 years 2 months ago
Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is one of the very few companies that seem to have made serious effort in this direction since 2008. The companies were made responsible for creating channels for proper collection and disposal of e-waste in accordance with a Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) approved EPR Authorization plan in India. Recently, the import license of some of the big companies were suspended for violation of E-waste rules. Such measures have a great impact on effective implementation of e-waste management in India. Any task undertaken must have its share of incentives which attract stakeholders. In the field of e-waste management, the government must announce incentives, which could be in the form of tax concessions or rebates, to ensure compliance across the electronics industry. Additionally, the e-waste collection targets need to be regularly reviewed and renewed to ensure compliance across India on collection of e-waste.
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SUTHAHAR P 4 years 2 months ago
Increasing information campaigns, capacity building, and awareness is critical to promote environment friendly e-waste management programmes. Increasing efforts are urgently required on improvement of the current practices such as collection schemes and management practices to reduce the illegal trade of e-waste. Reducing the amount of hazardous substances in e-products will also have a positive effect in dealing with the specific e-waste streams since it will support the prevention process.
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SUTHAHAR P 4 years 2 months ago
E-waste management is a great challenge for governments of many developing countries such as India. This is becoming a huge public health issue and is exponentially increasing by the day. In order to separately collect, effectively treat, and dispose of e-waste, as well as divert it from conventional landfills and open burning, it is essential to integrate the informal sector with the formal sector. The competent authorities in developing and transition countries need to establish mechanisms for handling and treatment of e-waste in a safe and sustainable manner.
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