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While e-waste recycling is a source of income for many people in India, it also poses numerous health and environmental risks. More than 95% of India's e-waste is illegally recycled by informal waste pickers called kabadiwalas or raddiwalas (scrap traders). [3]
Exported e-waste is frequently processed in situations that are unhealthy for the workers, where they are exposed to toxics. A hefty criticism often lobbed at reuse based recyclers is that people think that they are recycling their electronic waste, when in reality it is actually being exported to developing countries like China, India, and ...
Waste collection truck in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. The global e-waste monitor, a collaboration between the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the United Nations University, estimated that India generated 1.975 million tonnes of e-waste in 2016 or approximately 1.5 kg of e-waste per capita.
Amazon told BBC News it is "committed to minimising waste and helping our customers to reuse, repair, and recycle their products". It says it offers customers free recycling options including home ...
The e-Waste Association of South Africa (eWASA) [3] was established in 2008 to manage the establishment of a sustainable environmentally sound e-waste management system for the country. Since then the non-profit organization has been working with manufacturers, vendors and distributors of electronic and electrical goods and e-waste handlers ...
Bangalore, located in southern India, is often referred as the "Silicon Valley of India" and has a growing informal e-waste recycling sector. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] A study found that e-waste workers in the slum community had higher levels of V , Cr , Mn , Mo , Sn , Tl , and Pb than workers at an e-waste recycling facility.
"E-Waste is the fastest growing segment of the waste stream, and continuing innovation in e-waste recycling is fantastic news for our company." GTSO is already hard at work preparing to capitalize ...
A specialized trash collection truck providing regular municipal trash collection in a neighborhood in Stockholm, Sweden Waste pickers burning e-waste in Agbogbloshie, a site near Accra in Ghana that processes large volumes of international electronic waste. The pickers burn the plastics off of materials and collect the metals for recycling ...