e - Waste

Management
Presented by: Group 6
DEVESH GAUTAM N 017
DIPENDRA MODI N 018
NAND KISHOR N 035
PANKAJ KUMAR ARYA N 036
SUNIL KUMAR N 059
Date: 07/09/2019 VARUN KASHYAP N 061
PRESENTATION OUTLINE
1. e-Waste – some quick facts. Key trends – global and regional
2. e-Waste and Its Relation to the Sustainable Development Goals
3. Benefits of E-waste management
1. Social
2. Economic

4. Global initiatives and its current status

1. Initiatives – some example countries
2. e-Waste Legislation – global and regional

5. Strategies for e-Waste Management

1. Leading practices
2. Learnings

6. Indian context
1. Regulatory
2. Existing companies

7. Suggestions and way forward

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E-WASTE - FACTS (1/3)

 No standard definition, in general, refers to electronic equipment at the end of the product
usefulness.
 This also includes electrical and electronic equipment, whole or in part discarded as waste by
the consumer or bulk consumer as well as rejects from manufacturing, refurbishment and
repair processes
 As per reports, global e-Waste is projected to increase from ~44 MT (2016) to
~53 MT (2021)
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E-WASTE - FACTS (2/3)

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E-WASTE - FACTS (3/3)

❑ E-waste statistics are not only relevant in
terms of the environmental impact; there is
also an important economic component to
the debate.
❑ The value of secondary raw materials after
waste management is just a fraction of the
value of its components or the price of used
appliances.
❑ Circular economy models need to be
adopted to encourage closing the loop of
materials through better design of
components, recycling, reusing, etc., while
mitigating the environmental pollution.
❑ This calls for the development of proper
legislation to manage e-waste that's
supported by data to show both the
environmental and economic benefits the
better management of e-waste.

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e-Waste and Its Relation to the Sustainable Section 2

Development Goals (SDG)

 E- waste management is consistent with some of
the SDGs
 E-waste when treated inadequately, poses 3,6,14
serious health issues
 contaminating air, water, and soil, and putting people’s health at
risk.
 Dismantling processes that do not utilize adequate means,
facilities, and trained people pose additional threats to people
and the planet.

 As most e-waste will be generated in cities 11, 12, 8

 Improve collection and recycling rates, and to reduce the
amount of e-waste that ends up in dumpsites.
 To significantly reduce harmful chemicals release into air, water,
and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human
health
17 SDG’s with specific 169 targets under SDG
 protection of labour rights and promotes safe and secure
working environments promote development-oriented policies
that support productive activities, decent job creation,
entrepreneurship, creativity, and innovation, and to encourage
the formalization and growth of micro-, small-, and medium-
sized enterprises.

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Benefits of e-Waste Management

 Economical Benefits
 41 smartphones contain 1 gram of gold.
 For every 1 million smartphones recycled,
35,274 lbs of copper, 772 lbs of silver, 75 lbs
of gold, and 33 lbs of palladium can be
recovered.

 Social Benefits
 Health and Environmental factors .
 Less Contamination of Natural resources.

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GLOBAL INITIATIVES
The E-waste Coalition a group of seven UN entities that have
come together to increase cooperation and more efficiently provide support to
Member Statesand Parties to address the e-waste challenge.

The coalition brings together:

ILO-International Labour Organisation
ITU-International Telecommunication Union
UNEP-United Nations Environment Program
UNIDO- United Nations Industrial Development Organization
UNITAR- United Nations Institute for Training and Research
UNU-United Nations University
WBCSD- World Business Council for Sustainable Development
WHO-World Health Organisation
WEF-World Economic Forum
EMG-Environment Management Group

Generation of E-waste Has UNU, ITU, and ISWA joined forces, and in January 2017 launched
Grown to 44.7 Million Metric the Global Partnership for E-waste Statistics. Its objective is to
Tonnes Annually – Equivalent to help countries produce e-waste statistics and to build a global e-
Almost 4,500 Eiffel Towers waste database to track developments over time
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CURRENT STATUS
• The global quantity of e-waste generation in 2016
was around 44.7 million metric tonnes (Mt), or 6.1 kg
Amount
per inhabitant. It is estimated that in 2017, the world 18 16
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e-waste generation will exceed 46 Mt. The amount of 14
11.7 11
e-waste is expected to grow to 52.2 Mt in 2021, with 12
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an annual growth rate of 3 to 4%. 8 6
6
4 1.9
2
0
Africa America Asia Europe Australia

Amount

15.6 15.2

12.2

3.7
1.7
Africa America Asia Europe Australia
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INDIA SCENARIO

In India 2 Million Tonnes of waste is

generated Every Year

As of now,
Only 0.036 million tonnes of waste government has
was processed. 312 registered
recycling facilities
across 19 states
E-waste generation in India is with the capacity to
estimated to increase by 500 per cent recycle 0.78 million
by 2020. In 2016, the E-Waste (Management) Rules
placed responsibility on electronic goods metric tonnes.
manufacturing companies and bulk
Approximately 95 per cent of e-waste consumers to collect and channel e-waste
generated ends up in the informal from consumers to authorised re-
sector processing units.
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E-waste Management: Leading Practices

Disposing Responsibly: Sweden On the verge of achieving 100%: Norway

• Specific regulations governing the handling electrical • Take back companies were set up with the producers
and electronic waste and importers of electronic waste as early as 1998.
• Electrical and electronic waste is pre-treated, i.e. it is • Introduction of e-waste regulation in 1999
sorted or dismantled before being sent for further • In Norway, management of e-waste is producer
treatment. responsibility and producers are defined as
• Examples of pre-treatment include evaporation or Norwegian manufacturers and importers of EEE.
removal of hazardous components in electronic • EPR implementation in Norway mandates the
waste. domestic producers and importers to finance the e-
• Producers responsible for dealing with end-of-life waste collection and treatment systems. The
products financing can happen individually or collectively
• Producer responsibility expressly requires a certain • Producers/importers of e-waste in Norway are
percentage of waste to undergo materials recovery. obliged to be members of a take-back company and
• Citizens entitled to a government grant during to have to pay a fee for their membership to the take-
encourage them to sort their waste. The grant will back companies.
equal 30 per cent of the investment in collection • The take back companies report back to Waste
facilities for various kinds of waste close to the Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) register
building. and also finance WEEE register
• Property owners must collect electrical and • E-waste collection has increased from 12,427 tonne
electronic waste to qualify for the grant. in 1999 to 143,610 tonne in 2017

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Learning from leading practices

• Laws and regulations for specialized handling of e-waste along with stringent regulatory framework for producers.
Though it difficult for individual producers to fulfil all the parameters prescribed as per global regulations, but they
can do it at ease as a collective organisation
• Fixing responsibility of producers for dealing with end-of-life products. Producers must be given legal, physical and
economic responsibility for collecting and disposing of e-waste
• Setting up of efficient take back system and the collective interest of the producers to comply with the legislations
• Setting up of collection boxes or collection centres in residential areas
• Providing incentives to citizens for collecting e-waste
• Pre – treatment of e-waste
• Setting up of state-of-art recycling facility which uses advanced technologies to recycle e-waste. In Belgium, 95% of
the items sent to such facility is recycled. In India the figure is about 70%

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Indian ecosystem – regulations and companies

 The E-waste (Handling and Management) Rules (2016) specifies the
Responsibilities of Bulk Consumers & Producers to ensure proper e-waste
management.
 Apply to every manufacturer, producer, consumer, bulk consumer, collection
centers, dealers, e-retailer, refurbisher, dismantler and recycler involved in
manufacture, sale, transfer, purchase, collection, storage and processing of e-
waste or electrical and electronic equipment listed in Schedule I
 Categories of electrical and electronic equipment: telephones, typewriters, mainframes,
minicomputers, etc.
 Consumer electrical and electronics: TVs, Refrigerators, washing machine, Air-conditioners, fluorescent
and other Mercury containing lamps

 The Act sets out certain responsibilities for “Producers” and “Bulk Customers”

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Indian ecosystem – regulations and companies

Responsibilities: Producer Responsibilities: Bulk Consumer

02
01 Manage/ Tie Up with registered collection
center in every StateProducer
Responsibilities: They shall file annual returns
Register with the State Pollution control board They must deposit their to SPCB or PCC
02 in which the company is headquartered e-waste with dealer/
authorized collection
Ensure end to end recycling and complete audit centers/registered
03 01 dismantler/registered
trail
recycler, or dispose their
File annual returns with the State Pollution e-waste They shall not import used
04 control boards through producer's e- electrical and electronic
waste take back program equipment in India
05 Maintain Forms every time E-Waste is disposed
off any where in India
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Some Indian companies

 Attero Recycling Pvt. Ltd., Earth Sense Recycle, Ecoreco, SIMS Recycling
Solutions
 Solutions offered by E-waste management companies comprise of
 Providing state-of-the-art e-waste recycling facility, powered by disruptive technology
 Cost effective, high efficiency solutions for e-waste management
 Top of the line Refurbishing facility to help extend useful life of electronics and promote reuse
 DoD standard Data Sanitization and Data Destruction services
 Environmentally compliant, Secure and Transparent services
 Pan India Reverse Logistics network, spread across 22 states for efficient collection

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Suggestions and way forward

 Extension in the list of Schedule 1 of The E-waste (Handling and Management)
Rules (2016) – include mobile phones and accessories
 The biggest challenge is lack of awareness and options for discarding the e-Waste
to the “end users”
 Awareness creation at “end user” level about how to discard e-Waste through
proper channels
 Advertisement at large as part of “Swachh Bharat” or “Clean India” initiatives
 In general waste management (including e-Waste) should become an integral part of school curriculum.

 Providing fiscal incentives for setting organized e-Waste management centers at

retail level (collection as well as processing)
 At producer level, companies can expand their “Extended Producer
Responsibility” by setting up or providing end customers with “As – a – service”
model.

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You

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