Handling Electronic Waste - Solutions
Based on your inputs, below are the solutions to better handle electronic waste.
Kindly review them and if you have any additional inputs, please post them as a comment.
Swachh Bharat Mission
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Handling Electronic Waste - Solutions
1. Companies producing electronic goods must be mandated to spend their CSR funds on enabling recycling of electronic waste
2. A network should be built to collect the electronic waste from shops, industries, users etc.
3. It should be made mandatory for the electronic retail stores and e-commerce stores to accept electronic waste from customers (in proportion to units sold by them in a year)
4. Electronic stores could also offer a ‘home pickup’ facility at a charge to collect recyclable electronic waste
5. Recycling centres should be built for electronic waste
6. Collection centres/points must be set up across the country
7. Citizens should be made aware about the hazards of electronic waste
8. The e-waste regulations should be strictly enforced in the country
9. India must get into a strategic partnership with a European country to work towards better e-waste management
10. People should be made aware that there are many precious materials to be recovered from e-wastes like microwave, printers etc.
11. Sale of electronic waste to normal raddi walla should be banned
12. E-waste recyclers should be encouraged and should be given Government loans/grants to scale if execution model is proven
13. Exchange offers should be made for working or non-working e-goods so that it may be disposed appropriately by the retail network/manufacturer more