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The Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) has incubated an Electronics Recyclers’ Association (ERA) to organise electronic waste (e-waste) handling in an environment-friendly manner. ERA will initially comprise nine members, of which six are e-waste processors and three executive members.
Besides the amount that is generated in the country, e-waste is also illegally imported and there are only 10 formal recyclers who are collectors as well as dismantlers of this e-waste,” ERA Secretary-General Lakshmi Raghupathy told Business Standard. India imports almost 50,000 tonnes of e-waste yearly . It generated 330,000 tonnes of e-waste in 2007 and the number is expected to touch 470,000 tonnes by 2011, according to a study on e-waste assessment conducted jointly by MAIT and the German government’s sustainable development body GTZ.
E-waste is one of the world’s fastest growing waste streams and with increased consumption of information technology and electronics products, India will soon be faced with the challenges of managing the same. Currently, an estimated 380,000 tonnes of e-waste is generated annually in India, of which 19,000 tonnes are recycled,” said MAIT Executive Director Vinnie Mehta.
