E-Waste Management:Issues and Strategies in Managing E-Waste in Pune Region

E-waste describes discarded electrical or electronic devices. Used electronics which are destined for reuse, resale, salvage, recycling or disposal are also considered as e-waste. 80 to 85% of electronic products were discarded in landfills or incinerators, which can release certain toxics into the air.

A new study published in Environmental Research Letters that took air samples from Taizhou of Zhejiang province in China - one of the largest dismantling areas in the country that uses 60,000 people to dismantle over two million tons of e-waste annually and explored how the chemicals found in that air affects human lungs. Solid waste management system in Pune has to bear an extra 30 per cent load of electronic waste (E Waste) not being segregated, collected or processed by government institutions. While the e-waste rules were implemented in 2011, even after three years the problem of domestic e-waste disposal and recycling remains. This paper highlights the associated issues and strategies to address this emerging problem, in the light of initiatives in Pune. This paper presents e-waste management system in Pune with share responsibility for the collection and recycling of e-waste.