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Buying A Computer Or An Electric Appliance Pay For Its Safe Disposal After You've Junked ItBy Sumit Kumar, Section News
The next time you buy a computer or an electric appliance, prepare to shell out some extra money to compensate the manufacturer for taking it back at the product's death. So say the country's first specific guidelines on e-waste.
Based on the Swiss model, the new electronic waste guidelines notified last week by the Central Pollution Control Board ask all manufacturers to come up with a take-back policy for end of use electronic and electrical equipments. With the money manufacturers charge from consumers, they will have to put up e-waste collection centres in all cities. The guidelines, however, give them the option to do it either individually or collectively Manufacturers would . also sign a contract with e-waste collectors for consumer satisfaction. After collection, the guidelines put the onus of either disposing or selling e-waste to approved recyclers on product manufacturers. At present, e-waste treatment facilities are available only in Chennai and Bangalore.
MANUFACTURERS WILL set up e-waste collection centres in all Indian cities. "They (the manufacturers) will be answerable for any damage that e-waste does to the environment," a senior Environment ministry official said. Environment secretary Meena Gupta recently approved the guidelines. Click on "Full Story" for more...
Vinnie Mehta, executive director, Manufacturers Association for Information Technology says it's a step in the right direction. "Many companies like HCL and Wipro have already come up with their payback policies."
Although the system of collection seems sound, ewaste experts such as Ravi Aggarwal of Toxics Link say the guidelines are toothless in the absence of legislative backing. "They are just guidelines and don't not have any legal sanctity. No action has been suggested for failing to follow the guidelines." The emphasis is on effective dismantling and recycling of electronic waste besides regulating the existing unhealthy dismantling of e-waste in cities like Delhi and Mumbai. "Cost effective and labour intensive activities, mostly carried out in the informal sector, need to be brought into the mainstream recycling activity the guidelines state. ,"With an installed base of 4.64 million desktops and 431 thousand notebooks and 89 thousand servers in 2004-05, India is a global hub for ewaste recycling. According to the estimates made by MAIT, the Indian PC industry is growing at a 25% compounded annual growth rate. The e-waste inventory in India, based on this installed base and obsolescence rate for 2005, was estimated to be 146180.00 tonne. This is expected to exceed 8,00,000 tonnes by 2012. Sixty-five cities in India generate more than 60% of the total e-waste generated. Mumbai is the top generator of ewaste with Delhi second followed by Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata. India also gets a huge quantity of e-waste from Europe and America. Source: Hindustan Times, April-09/08
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