E-waste Management

Smartphone companies and industry organisations have agreed to a phased rollout of a uniform charging port for all electronic devices, the Consumer Affairs Ministry said on Wednesday. A sub-group will be set up to examine the feasibility of uniform charging ports for wearables, it said. This was decided during a discussion in the meeting of the inter-ministerial task force chaired by Consumer affairs secretary Rohit Kumar Singh here. The representatives of industry associations such as MAIT, FICCI, CII, educational institutions, including IIT Kanpur, IIT (BHU), Varanasi as well as the central government ministries, including the Environment Ministry, attended the meeting. "Stakeholders agreed that a phased roll-out of the common charging port may be conducted so that the same can be applied by the industry and adopted by consumers harmoniously," an official statement said. In the meeting, a broad consensus emerged among stakeholders on the adoption of USB Type C as a charging por

A collaborative effort between government, the regulator, producers and recyclers is required to ensure that the electronic waste is recycled

Financing will strengthen partnerships and distribution, carbon reduction activities, R&D efforts and overall operations in LATAM, Africa, and Asia-Pacific

According to the United Nations, each person on the planet will produce on average 7.6 kg of e-waste in 2021

Centre has formed 11 committees, each led by a ministry, to prepare action plans for transitioning from a linear to a circular economy in their respective focus areas

Street scrap collectors, and the country has a huge number of them, can be employed, trained and introduced to the microfactories

A sizeable amount of this waste either remains untreated or is handled by the unorganised sector in the most clumsy and crude manner

Committee noted that there has been an "exponential" increase in the generation of e-waste all across world