Electronic Waste Problem is Rising, Govt. Needs Better Policies

We Live in world, where everything goes in the trash, when human don’t use it anymore and same thing happen with the electronics and this is making the problem of pilling of large chunks of E-waste. The world needs more e-waste managements and recycling facility to refurbish the e-goods and expand the life span of the products. As the PC and Smartphone continue to grow, the problem will also go up. The devices are made up of plastic and metals, which are very toxic to our earth soil because the plastic is made by several chemicals and disposing the electronics in one way, harms the environment and also harm human health, could give skin disease and other to those people who has continually spent the time with such waste. A report from Indian Govt. Presented in Rajya Sabha say India produces about 400,000 tons of e-waste in 2010, with went up 140,000 tons in 2005. A huge amount comes from the television about 68%, and 27% by PC’s and Servers. Maharashtra leads the list with Mumbai, followed by Tamil Nadu and Delhi and Mumbai is the second largest producer of E-waste.

"The E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules were notified in 2011 and came into force in 2012," says Sohail. "However, not much has been done since then. Very few manufacturers have come forward to implement the provisions [and] take the responsibility of their products [at] end of life."  Published on a Site.

There are rules and regulation in the managements of such things, but the problem is companies and manufacturers and producers must comply with the rules and have to make proper facilities to take care of the e-waste problem. Previously the e-waste managements rule had come into picture in 2010 and instructed the producers to take care of all problems that their products are creating.

GreenCitizen Had Recycled 2.5 M pound And Aiming For More

As tech development the consumers purchasing the phones, tablets, laptops and other electronic goods, GreenCitizen is the e-waste recycling company based in Burlingame had submit a report in which it recycled the 2.5 million pound of e-waste which previously thrown to landfills. On the earth day they had celebrated company’s none successful year and showed the report and now they have a goal to achieve. They set the target of 3.1 million pound with the opening new recycling centers in several countries metropolitan area. It now aims to build more sustainable metropolitan model that will be generating Environment friendly air and will be helpful for business to reuse and recycle their own products. Founder of the company has a idea to develop the e-waste facility to handle the e-goods all around the world and after recycling they will put them for sale. He watched a documentary on illegally discarded the electronic items into lands and decided to find a solution.

smdailyjournal  says “The company does free pickups of e-waste items if a business has at least 10 of the following items: desktops, laptops, Smartphone’s, monitors, servers and TVs. Otherwise, companies are charged $100 per pickup or other heavy item fees. Customers can drop off batteries, CDs, cell phones, cables, cords, desktops, computer accessories, fax machines, light bulbs, printers, Styrofoam, stereo equipment and other items to the company’ eco-centers and eco-stations.”

Company head quartered in Burlingame and have about 20,000 square foot facility, putting the tracking numbers into the e-goods to ensure about where they dismantle and crushed, metals are reused and the waste will be destroyed. The good items, which they think can be reuses by users, simply they took photos and posted on E-bay and Amazon for sale and customers can also sell their items to company

E-Waste to Exceed 93.5 Million Tons Annually

The use of electronics good in our life is increasing every year and people can’t give up the feeling of using the electronics in daily use for example, your Smartphone, TV, Headphones, Computer and accessories, which are releasing ton of carbon in the Environment . Electronic recycling is forecasted to grow to 24 percent through all over the decade and newly made report, which states that, the global recycling business which works under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipments directive, was valued about $9.84 billion back in 2012. The WEE legislation is proposed in order to maintain the proper dump the electronic waste without hurting the Environment. It really helping the technological and illegal issues in the IT and Non IT sectors where the electronic equipments are at high use and it helping to grow to the market because lack of the recycling consciousness and authoritarian has caused us a threat of 4 percent of global landfill mass which contains the 75 percent of environment hazard material.

Geographically, Europe dominated the e-waste recycling market followed by North America in 2012. The European recycling rate is slightly higher than North America due to efficient approach to recycling guided by two directives; RoHS Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive and the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). Most of the e-waste from developed countries was imported to developing countries such as India, China and Pakistan due to cheap labor and no mandatory recycling regulations.

A safe recycling is very important in order to protect our environment because Developed countries like US and UK are dumping their E-waste illegally in growing countries like India, China and Africa are facing the heat generated by these Equipments but the reports say that the awareness in the dumping E-waste in increasing.