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Started by : Disha Roy, Lecturer, St Xaviers College   08 09 2010 06:13:29 +0000
Industry : IT ProductsFunctional Area : R&D(Operations)
Activity:  60 views;  last activity : 08 30 2010 15:05:23 +0000

Are you planning to discard your mobile phone or exchange it for a new one? Then consider this stats: Old mobile phones constitute 1,700 tonnes of the 50,000 tonnes of e-waste generated in India each year and, according to a UN report released early this year, e-waste from mobile phones is set to rise 18 times by 2020.


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E-waste, or electronic waste, implies discarded computers, mobiles, refrigerators or any other electronic appliance at the end of its life. With growing consumerism, discarding e-waste has become a big challenge in the country.

So, how can we tackle this E-waste problem people?? Share your views on this.

 
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1 More impetus to Organised recycling
2 Give tax concessions to set-up recycling units
3 Manufacture products with soluble materials
4 Conservation
5 Decompose e-waste
6 manufacuture of eco friendly electronic products

More impetus to Organised recycling

idea posted by Disha Roy Lecturer, St Xaviers College

With so much of e-waste this has spawned a relatively new sector called Organised recycling. As of now, only there are few players have sprung into action by re-cycling mobile phones, which also contain precious metals like gold, silver and platinum as well as other metals like copper. Mobile phone and PC makers gobble up three per cent of the world’s entire gold and silver supply each year, not to mention 13 per cent of palladium, 15 per cent of cobalt, and plenty of copper, steel, nickel and aluminum.

But, currently almost 90% of e-waste is being recycled by the unorganised sector, which includes small scale garbage collectors. The process they use for extracting precious metals is not only harmful, but also results in the loss of almost 75 per cent of the precious metals.  With organised recycling a licensed re-cycler can extract metal waste in an eco-friendly way.

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by Vipin Bhasin, Private Equity/Hedge Fund/VC-Manager, Indian Investment Co.  | 08 21 2010 12:44:29 +0000

Recycling process always useful for every product. It is simple solution for the problem.

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by SHRIKANT MANOHAR DANKE, Project Manager, Phadnis Infrastructur Ltd  | 08 10 2010 06:01:07 +0000

I support your idea, Disha.

Re-cycling is a good option to control e-waste.& this initiative should be taken from manufacturers only or make it mandatory for them to collect e-waste after it's life ends.

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by Arun Kumar K, Security/ Equity Research Analyst, Thomson Reuters  | 08 10 2010 03:07:44 +0000

Recycling e-waste is the best idea to tackle this problem. What ever garbage we disopse should be undergone for recycling. When you enter metro cities or other major cities in India we experience very stinky smell because of garbage or sewage water. Once the Biocon Chairman & Managing Director Kiran Mazumdar-shaw told that inorder to get rid of garbage government has to take necessary steps to manage the garbage effectively by processing it for recycling like other developed nations do. Only then we can have cleaner & green cities in India.

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Give tax concessions to set-up recycling units

idea posted by Jaygopal Raghavan Marketing Manager, Landmark Group

In a country where the population is bursting at its seams and unemployment growing, incentives like tax concessions to set up recycling units at every block or panchayat level and every town should do the trick of not only controlling the above but also the waste issue.

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by Onkar Datt Sharma, Manager (Technical), Retired  | 08 30 2010 15:05:22 +0000

Concessions have to be given to achieve this objective. This is the Indian character and we have to apply this to invite a mass to achieve this.

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Manufacture products with soluble materials

idea posted by Venugopal K AM ( Lean tools), SPB Limited

Recyclable, reusable, eco friendly and soluable materials only used for all product manufacturing. We should think and create these type of materials to save the future world for our children.

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Conservation

idea posted by S. Muralidharan Executive Director, Knowledge Foundation & Campus Around the Corner
First of all, we need to understand before using any item, whether such items are absolutely necessary. We allow proliferation of plastics, then we cry for apathy of using it. We lived in an era when the advent of plastic technology was not in the high ebb! We could manage without that. How do you recyle the defunct monitors, toners and developers you use in your photocopiers, printers, etc. Do we know how poisonous and injurious to health if a CFL bulb falls and breaks. The mercury content in it is highly poisonous. Before we allow such technologies to proliferate, we need to understand the perils in advance to regulate it.
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Decompose e-waste

idea posted by Mohammad Bakhsh Consultant(Civil), Rail Vikas Nigam Limited

The recycling may not be practical proposition.Instead  an e-waste basket may be kept near by each electronic shop where e-waste can be dumped and dispose off by decomposition.It  requires development of some sort of compound which which can decompose the e-waste.

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manufacuture of eco friendly electronic products

idea posted by Ravishankar M.Sc student, M.S. Ramaiah College Of Science, Bangalore

Companies should manufacture eco friendly electronic products which are easy to dispose at he end of their life. This will cause less harm on the environment..

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by Onkar Datt Sharma, Manager (Technical), Retired  | 08 10 2010 06:41:17 +0000

This is a good idea but here I want to add one more thing, The manufacturers should collect the items after its life is over at some minimal cost

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