Business plan

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ELECTRONIC WASTE
Electronic waste, "e-waste" or "Waste Electrical
and Electronic Equipment" ("WEEE") is a waste
consisting of any broken or unwanted electrical
or electronic appliance. It is a point of
concern considering that many components of such
equipment are considered toxic and are not
biodegradable.
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India generates close to 500,000 tons e-waste
p.a. Expected to touch a million ton by 2011
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WASTE PILING UP
Broad break up appears as under Mumbai 50,000
tons Delhi 35,000 Bangalore 30,000
Chennai 25,000 Kolkata
19,000 Ahmedabad 14,000 Hyderabad
13,000 Pune 10,000 Indore
8,000
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SOURCES OF WEEE

• IT Telecom Equipments
• Large Household Appliances
• Small Household Appliances
• Consumer Lighting Equipments
• Electrical Electronic Tools
• Toys, Leisure Sports Equipment
• Medical Devices
• Monitoring Control Instruments

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Over 400 million current mobile users expected
to increase to 500 million by 2010 end
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At present, India has about 40 million
computers which are expected to grow to 80
million computers by end 2010
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Over 14 million old PCs ready for disposal in
India
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What contributes to e-waste?

• A relatively new category of waste brought along
  with the high-tech boom
• E-waste includes all types of electronic
  equipments/ products which have become obsolete
  or have been discarded due to
• Advancement in technology
• Changes in fashion, style, status or perception
• Nearing the end of their useful life
• Generally understood to refer to any old,
  obsolete, end-of-life appliances using
  electricity which have been disposed off by their
  owners

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How informal sector deals with?

• A relatively new industry in India, traditionally
  dominated by the unorganized segment
• Scrap dealers and rag-pickers gather e-waste from
  households in their area of operation and employ
  crude and highly unsafe processes for recycling
  the same, causing significant environmental
  damage
• open burning of wires to extract resalable
  copper, soaking of circuit boards in acid baths
  to extract precious metal, disposing the residue
  into open drains or land, etc.
• The formal e-waste recycling segment consists of
  a few large players which have the proper
  infrastructure to handle WEEE equipment

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Unsafe methods for e-waste recycling

• The unorganised segment often employs crude and
  highly unsafe processes for while recycling
  e-waste, and extracting precious materials
  therefrom

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Magnitude of e-waste in India

• As per a study released by MAIT, India generated
  330,000 MT of electronic waste in 2007, while an
  additional 50,000 MT was illegally imported
• MAIT estimates that by 2011, e-waste in India
  would touch 470,000 MT
• The Western region contributes maximum to e-waste
  generation up to 35
• Sixty five cities in India generate up to 60 of
  total e-waste
• Ten states alone generate more than 70 of total
  e-waste
• MAIT estimates that only 19,000 tonnes of the
  total e-waste generated gets ultimately processed
  by the formal recycling sector
• As per the study, around 94 of corporates in
  India do not have a policy on disposal of
  obsolete IT products/ e-waste

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Major toxic elements in e-waste

• Due to the pervading reach of information
  technology in trade and commerce, computer waste
  is the most significant of all e-waste, along
  with televisions and cellular phones
• E-waste contains both valuable as well as harmful
  components
• Valuable components include precious metals such
  as gold, silver, copper, palladium, etc.
• Harmful substances include lead, mercury,
  cadmium, etc.
• Some of the key toxic elements contained within
  components of a computer include