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Management of Electronic Waste

| इलेक्ट्रॉनिक कबाड़ का प्रबंधि


Introduction
-Liakatbir Singh
ED, Pahal
Waste
Garbage
कचरा
कबाड़
बेकार
निकम्मा
E-Waste

Anything that has a wire, a plug, a battery or runs on


electricity that you probably aren’t going to use ever
again comprises of Electronic Waste
Is e-waste a problem?
How big a problem is this?

People are changing their mobile phones every 7


months
What are people doing with their old
phones?

 Globally
• 44% of old mobile phones are
3% Recycle globally lying in drawers at home and not
being recycled
4% throw their
old phones away • Only 3% of people recycle their
mobile phones globally
24% pass them to friends or family

16% of unused phones are sold on to


others for continued use

4% donate their old phone to charities


Solution???

E-Waste Recycling
Why Recycling??
• Recycling means we don’t need to extract and refine as much material for new
products
• Saves energy, chemicals and waste

• 100 percent of the materials in the phone can be recovered and used to make
new products or generate energy
E-Waste Recycling in India
Case Study – Seelampur, East Delhi ( India’s largest illegal electronics dismantling,
recycling and selling market)

• India generates 4 Lakh tonnes of e-waste annually

• 50,000 tonnes illegally imported from US, Europe,


South Korea, Australia

• Almost all of it comes to Seelampur market


E-Waste Recycling in India
Dipping in Acid

Majority work is
handled by
Applying heat teenagers
Scrapping
with cutters
E-Waste Recycling in India

Dumped in landfill sites

Burned away
Do we have an option?

Responsible
Recycling
E Waste Management &
Handling Rules, 2016
Recycle Flow for Mobile Phones
Dismantling & Destruction Process (Mobile Phone)

Mobile Phone Before Dismantling

Waste Stream of Mobile Phone

Further destruction on
Waste Stream

Manual Dismantling & Segregation

LCD Screen Plastic Housing PWB Metallic Parts Li-Ion Batteries


What We Can Do?

ASK! | पूछो! । पता करो!


Return to the Producer! |
प्रडूसर को वानपस करो!
Role PAHAL is Playing

Karo Sambhav!
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Thank You!

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