E –waste: a new challenge for India (original) (raw)
During the last few decades scientist and diplomats were concern about the pollution caused from municipal solid waste but from the last few years there has been resurgence concern on the electronic waste (E-waste). E-waste is one of the fastest-growing pollution and it is becoming more and more complicated day by day globally. A limited attempt has been made to handle the E-waste. The whole world including developed and developing country like India and China face the E-waste management problem. According to international and national agencies of India like IAER, UNO and CAG, CPCB and ELCINA mentioned in their report that 400 million e-waste generated all over the world till 2010 and 20-50 MT are disposed off every year. According to ELCINA 4.34 lakh tonnes e-waste generated till 2012 and 0.800 MT/day generated in India. Only 10 states and just 65 cities of India produced 70% of total e-waste of India. The developing countries are facing huge challenges in the management of e-waste which are either internally generated or imported illegally. E waste from the American continent, European Union and Australia import to China, India and other Asian country illegally. Indian is one of the largest waste importing countries in the world in the form of cheap raw material. According to Indian customs department, every year 50000 tonnes of e-waste imported from European Union (Germany, Netherlands, and Denmark) illegally. So the country like India is needed to change in attitude of governments, appropriate legislation dealing specifically with e-waste, control of electronic waste dumping, implementation of extended producer responsibility (EPR) and transfer of technology on sound recycling of e-waste are the key issues in effective management of e-waste in developing countries
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