Example Guidelines

▪ Mainly found e-waste types in your country/ Region

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• Computer devices account for nearly 70% of e-waste, 12% comes from the telecom sector, 8%
from medical equipment and 7% from electric equipment
• Mumbai is the top e-waste producer followed by Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai, and Kolkata
• Back to shop and recycling centres
• Laws: (a) waste batteries as covered under the Battery Waste Management Rules, 2022; (b)
packaging plastics as covered under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016; (c) micro
enterprise as defined in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Act, 2006 (27 of
2006); (d) radio-active wastes as covered under the provisions of the Atomic Energy Act, 1962
(33 of 1962) and rules made there under. [Central Pollution Control Board, E-Waste
(management) Rules, 2022]
• There have been efforts to raise awareness through government initiatives, educational
programs, and campaigns by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and the private sector
• According to schedule-1, rules have been applied to every producer, purchaser, collection
Source: Electronic Waste and India, Dr. S. Chatterjee
centers,dismantler and recycler of e-waste. The regulatory agencies involved are State Pollution Scientist-E Department of Information Technology
Control Boards (SPCBs)/Pollution Control Committees (PCCs) and CPCB. It also facilitates Electronics Niketan
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principle which states that company must be
concerned not only with product manufacturing and functioning tasks, but also with end-life of
the product [Vijay Kumar Garlapati, E-waste in India and developed countries: Management,
recycling, business and biotechnological initiatives]

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