What are the reasons for a negligible recycling rate of e-waste in India? Suggest measures for recycling e-wastes effectively. (200 Words)
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IAS Parliament 5 years
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Reasons for negligible recycling rate
· 95 percent of India’s e-waste is managed by the unorganised sector using dangerous methods to recover metals from circuit-boards and wires.
· There are close to 200 e-waste recyclers in India which are licensed by the CPCB, but most of them are also just dismantlers.
· Formal sector recyclers face stiff competition from informal operators who get away without following the regulations. Authorised recyclers incur large overhead costs for mandatory infrastructure for construction and equipment and the official and unofficial costs of compliance with multiple regulations.
· The consequential cost of inventory build-up encourages malpractice and leakage of the e-waste to the informal sector because material-flow monitoring of the authorised recyclers is weak.
· Rag-pickers paid very low for their e-waste collection.
Measures for effective re-cycling of e-wastes
· Cities should organise quarterly collection drives or provide drop -off centres. Producers should set up collection centres for EEE.
· We should all purchase new products turning in our old ones for a discount, so that dealers become aggregators for channelizing e-items to authorised dismantlers.
· As users we can reduce e-waste by buying long-life items, and supporting repair and refurbishment.
· Producer responsibility organisations like Reverse Logistics Group and Karo Sambhav are paid by EEE producers to source and pay for e-waste. They should be encouraged to network with kabadiwalas.
· E Waste Management Rules 2016 need to be backed by enforcement of the regulatory framework, provision of the necessary infrastructure, and an enabling environment for compliance.
Nandadeep 5 years
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IAS Parliament 5 years
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