Policy (K)nights

SVC DIPLOMATS

E-Waste Policy

Akansh Gandhi Vedansh Lamba

 SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS POLICY & SOLUTIONS CIRCULAR MODEL

CURRENT WEEE DISPOSAL VALUE CHAIN CURRENT DISPOSAL CYCLE

GLOBAL $ 3.24
MARKET EEE tn Metal
33% Glass

SMALL AGGREGATORS
37%

PRODUCERS CONSUMERS (SEGREGATION) RECYCLER 27% 10%

INDIAN $ 155
MARKET EEE Bn
Plastic

Total E-Waste Formal Waste

30%

6.5% collection Collection Components of E-

Annual CAGR Waste

E-Waste Produced EEE PRODUCED AND WEEE STATUS

VS Infra VS Recycled
2000000
EEE in the market WEEE generated WEEE collected

RETAILERS SCRAP DEALERS CREDITORS

1500000 (Unorganised & No
SEGREGATION) 5.8 kg/capita 2.4 kg/capita 0.024 kg/capita

PROBLEMS IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT

1000000

DOMESTIC PRODUCTION OVER TIME & WEEE IMPORTS BY INDIA

500000 Lack of infrastructure 2014-15 2018-19

0 Working capital requirements LCD & 0.87

1.2 Crores
LED TVS Crores
CURRENT DISPOSAL Highly informal sector with
METHODS existence of child labor MOBILE
6 Crores 32 Crores
PHONES
Recycled
20% Hazardous waste dumping
Refurbishment
Land filling
Incinerated Import of E-waste OBJECTIVES & PRIORITIES
Incineration 35%
Solve the stated problems Improve waste collection
Recycling Ineffective Legislation
Formulation of Circular economy in EEE Developing suitable policies
Land Fills Elimination of Middlemen in current WEEE disposal value chain
 WORKING CAPITAL
SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS POLICY & SOLUTIONS CIRCULAR MODEL
Due to the existence of high usage of credit in the existing
value chain, working capital was a big roadblock.
IMPROVING INFRASTRUCTURE WASTE COLLECTION
Maharasthra
Ensuring working capital flow by:
In order to deal with domestic and imported WEEE, 13.9%
Higher awareness on govt. schemes
we need to improve our infrastructure through Others
30% Tamil Nadu Urban Rural providing loans at low interest rates
exercising favorable foreign relations and
9.1%
geographical planning. Enforcing grants towards e-waste
407 sector as a part of CSR
no. of registered State wise WEEE Andhra Pradesh
WEEE recyclers Government trained scrap dealers
8.7%
and dismantlers in assigned to every village; An experienced
India aggregator heads 10-20 dealers covering
Uttar Pradesh
Gujarat the same number of villages. RBI uses moral suasion under monetary policy to
7.1%
6.1% Delhi
6.7% Mandating Corporates and Automobile industry channelize the flow of credit to e-waste management
sector. Unlike agriculture with highest default rates,
TIE UP WITH SRI LANKA AND BANGLADESH to dispose their e-waste via OH,Scrap since they
WEEE sector doesn’t have an element of uncertainty -
WEEE imports can be managed through setting up mega recycling are a major source of WEEE.
plants in our neighbors. making low interest loans possible.
This reduces the load on our plants and prospers international HAZARDOUS DUMPING
relations.
Introduce standards for dismantling/recycling units
Two mega plants in Gujarat and Bihar will act as parent plants to the Stricter implementation and effective legislation of:
Landfills
16% including de-pollution practices to ensure removal of toxic
current small plants.
fractions.
With Gujarat handling the WEEE of Maharashtra, leading in WEEE as E-waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011
well as North-Western India; Bihar plant takes care of central India and E-waste (Management) Rules, 2016 Set-up coherent dismantling and recycling
infrastructure frameworks and provisions.
Northern India. With three southern states being in top 10 for WEEE, the
Increased fines and penalties Community bins  Set-up of Sampling Labs for understanding the
Sri Lankan plant will take care of South while the Bangladesh plant takes Low lying open areas 56%
material content
care of the east. 28%
 Incentives to set-up advanced recycling units/ Eco-parks

FORMALISING THE SECTOR

Formal
Create channels Integration of Extended Producer Responsibility and setting collection targets (ITEW companies)
10% Tapping into the strength of the informal Collection target (tonnes) 2017-22
sector through formalization will facilitate and provide localized “collection 20000
Collection target for ITEW
It is evident that consumer 9%
larger volumes of ewaste into the formal clarification for points” connected to
value chain and enable greater circularity electronics dominate the
budgets for public larger “collection 15000
in material flows. collection targets. This can be
awareness centers”.
10000 attributed to the fact that
Role of informal sector needs to be e-waste collected Interfacing with consumer electronic
acknowledged, and a platform should be by anyone not PRO, recyclers and
Informal equipment are heavier than
created for registration of informal sectors 5000
90% registered in the digital PROs information technology
and formalizing them.
system should managed collection equipment. Collection target for CEEW
0 91%
lead to penalties. centres. XIaomi Apple Microsoft HP Lenovo Dell
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FINANCIALS UNIT ECONOMICS OF THE MODEL

OH (S)CRAP (STAKEHOLDER BENEFIT ANALYSIS)
Other Company Expenses
ONE STOP PLATFORM FOR YOUR 18%

RECYCLING NEEDS
PRODUCER Sales & Marketing
RETAILER
1
3% Consumers

We have managed to greatly reduce the variable costs

2 54%

resulting to an increase in net income from 1.8 billion

in previous model to 2.4 billion in the new,, improved 5 Partners/Scrap Dealers
20%
model. Please refer to the appendix for financial
RECYCLER
3 CONSUMER
App Connectivity: Launch an app connecting consumers with
viability.
4 scrap dealers for direct e-waste collection, eliminating
intermediaries.
SCRAP DEALER
(ORGANISED AND Empower Dealers: Equip scrap dealers to segregate e-waste,
SEGREGATION)
enhancing their role and efficiency in the recycling process.

SUMMATION
ROADMAP TO SUSTAINABILITY & ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION Cut Out Aggregators: Remove small and big aggregators from
the process, enabling direct scrap dealer to recycler
transactions.

Profit Redistribution: With savings from streamlined operations,

redistribute more profits to scrap dealers and consumers.

Recycler Partnership: Partner with recyclers for efficient, pre-

segregated e-waste processing, reducing costs and
E-Waste Generation Notification sent to Scrap Dealer Profits redistributed environmental impact.
Consumer uses app to dispose waste Scrap dealer segregates waste
Boost Sustainability: Achieve greater environmental and
economic efficiency through a simplified, direct recycling
ecosystem.
Appendix
REFERENCE TO GRAPHS ON SLIDE 2 & 4

E-WASTE PRODUCED VS
WEEE WASTE IMPORTED BY INDIA
MANAGEMENT CAPACITY VS
OVER YEARS 2014-2023
RECYCLED

Unit Economics of the Model

(Stakeholder Benefit Analysis)
ESTIMATED FINANCIAL VIABILITY OF CURRENT E-WASTE
DISPOSAL

REVENUE COSTS

NET INCOME

CATEGORIES
ESTIMATED FINANCIAL VIABILITY OF CIRCULAR E-WASTE
MODEL

REVENUE COSTS

NET INCOME

ASSUMPTIONS
1. In the given model, it has been assumed that all the informally
organized scrap collectors become the part of OH (S)CRAP.
2. This is done since it is most likely in long term
3. The collection of e-waste would increase with formal organization
of the sector. We have assumed increase to be 5% initially for
realism.
4. It is assumed that the variable costs decrease since the
segregation is now done by the partner who gets more profit and
the cost/interest to creditor has been completely
 SOURCES

Websites
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day-to-focus-on-the-role-of-consumers-in-improving-rates-of-reuse-refurbishment-and-
recycling/
https://www.meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/Circular_Economy_EEE-MeitY-May2021-ver7.pdf
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Research Papers
E- waste Management in India Challenges and Agenda by Siddharth Ghanshyam Singh
Electronic Waste in India : Problems & Policies by Anwesha Borthakur
E-waste management in India : Issues & Strategies by Dr. Sampada Gulavani
Barriers & Enablers for implementing circular economy business models by Vasileios Rizos
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