E-waste Management

Industry perspective – looking ahead!

Mumbai
28 November 2006

Vishakha Das
WeP Peripherals Ltd.
Member – MAIT & EWA

November, 06
 Background
WEEE/RoHS initiatives launched in Europe

1st July 2006 ‘go live date’

Applicable to all electrical/electronic

products.

Certain ‘end industries’ exempt.

Concept of EPR and polluting elements

Indian Legislation under debate

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E- Waste Generation Sources
The average life span of a personal computer has
gone down from 4 – 5 years to 2 years!

IT industry with 1,00,000 professionals. Every

year about 30% of its computers are rendered
obsolete.

BPO, ITES with 60,000 professionals also

contribute significantly as also the banking
sector.

Households contribute significantly to

batteries, fluorescent lamps etc.

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 Components of E- waste
Circuit boards contain heavy metals like lead
and cadmium
Computer batteries contain cadmium
Cathod ray tubes with lead oxide
Brominated flame retardants used on printed
circuit boards, cables and plastic casing
Copper cables and plastic computer casings
contain PVC
Refrigerators contain CFCs

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 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WASTE
GENERATED?

Through an extensive network this

waste winds its way through a series of
agents. Components are retrieved and
reused.

Other parts recycled.

“What remains is finally disposed

indiscriminately in drains, open sites or
the community bins”
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Scrap dealers use unhealthy practices to extract
valuable material, and dispose the rest.

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Scrap yard:Components are segregated
without any safety precaution

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E-Waste thrown in Storm water drains after
partial recovery by scrap dealers

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 E- waste disposal hazards
When discarded irresponsibly – the toxins pose a
health hazard.
When burnt openly or in incinerators – the toxins
pollute the air. Toxins cause damage to lungs,
kidneys, central and peripheral nervous systems,
blood circulation, birth defects and increase the risk
to cancer.

Contaminates ground water through landfill

leachate.

Leads to chronic toxic effects in plants and animals.

Children lose mental ability even at lower levels of

exposure.
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E-waste management
European and other Western countries have a
two pronged approached to e-waste disposal
- Reduce volume by crushing it
- Incinerate

India fares much better in terms of recycling

and reuse of electrical and electronic items!

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Extended Producer Responsibility

Consumer
Return
Manufacturer, Producer,
retailer, distributor, Take back
authorized sales & service
agents.

Third party/ Recycle

Manufacturer, producer.

Disposal

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 KSPCB Authorised E-waste Recycler :
E - Parisara

www.ewasteindia.com

Safety and environment management are a priority at E-Parisara. It

also has a strong R&D cell on the lookout for innovative methods for
disposing E-waste. It is the only facility in India – hence E-parisara
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and similar facilities should be encouraged by the industry.
 Fluorescent Tube processing

Fluorescent tubes Phosphorus, Mercury removal

and Mercury bulbs
Glass Recycling/ Reuse

Reusing tubelights for less than premium usage

www.ewasteindia.com
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 TUBE LIGHT CRUSHING

Tube lights are crushed (under vacuum trap) using a simple

crushing setup and then taken for size reduction and sharp
edge removal.

FOR RECYCLING

ALUMINIUM CAPS

GLASS FOR RECYCLING

PHOSPHORUS, MERCURY
FOR SECURE LANDFILL

CRUSHED GLASS
www.ewasteindia.com

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 PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS
(non-incineration method)

PULVERIZED PCBs ENRICHED METAL

PCBs FRACTION

EPOXY POWDER RECOVERED COPPER

MOULDS MADE OUT OF EPOXY POWDER

www.ewasteindia.com
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 Processing plastic waste
• Monitor plastic cabinet is fixed with pre-used CPU fans, used SMPS
to power the
fans and a charcoal bed which functions as a fume extractor.

• Plastics are shredded in a shredding machine and moulded into

panels which can
be used for partitions or false roofing.

• Monitor plastic cabinets are used as flower pots.

Designed Air Purifier Wall/Floor paper or Monitor Cabinet as

partition panels Flower Pot

www.ewasteindia.com REUSING
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IC CHIPS

• Non incineration method of ICs crushing, pulverizing

and separation of metals in jaw crusher, roller mill,
hammer mill etc.

PULVERIZED ICS

METAL

• Metals fractions after segregation are send for

recycling & casting
• Scarp metal sheets of CPU cabinets are used as
bird house etc.

www.ewasteindia.com
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 SOLDER RECOVERY

•Solder present in printed circuit boards are recovered

and been moulded.

Recovered solder

www.ewasteindia.com
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 CAPACITORS

DENSITY SEPARATION

CAPACITORS CRUSHED
CAPACITORS
METAL (AL) PLASTICS

WIRE STRIPPER RECYCLING

PVC FOR RECYCLING

METAL FOR RECYCLING

CABLE STRIPPER

www.ewasteindia.com
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 Disposal of dry cell batteries
BATTERIES
• Dry Batteries are crushed and zinc are separated
where zinc and copper can be used for brass
castings.

www.ewasteindia.com
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 India -Challenge factors
Geographical spread

Communication and outreach

Huge variety of WEEE goods

Longer ‘use life’ for goods/appliances

Society need to ‘reuse’ – early scrap is a luxury

Precedence of ‘scrap value’ for EOL goods

Data availability – who? how much? when? where?

Investment scoping – who? how much?

Institutional framework
…need for an India solution!
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 Stakeholders

General public/consumers
Corporate/Business houses
Disposal agencies
Government and regulatory
authorities
NGO’s

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 Proposed framework @ Jan’05
General public Corporate Houses

Manufacturer User

Policy, Process, guidelines,etc

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Nodal
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Disposal Agency

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 Proposed Roles & Responsibilities
•Awareness building
General public •Data source Corporate Houses
•Active participant in initiative
•Share international best
practices – process, technology
etc Manufacturer User

•Awareness, sensitization
•Incentivisation for return? •Charter holder
Effect on price?
Nodal •Government , NGO, Corporate,
Body Public
•Awareness, policy, processes,
guidelines, monitoring, data ,
capture/collate/study/publish
•Coordination with other Govt.
Disposal Agency bodies – STPI, Customs, Excise,
•Professional, scientific Sales Tax, etc
•Capacity, technology, channels •Legislation interface with CPCB
•Data source
•Sustainable business model
•Multi tiered model?
•Scale is key
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 Status Check @ April’06…
General public
•Still limited reach-out and
awareness.
•Need for education and
greater involvement
•1st DA licensed in Bangalore
•Unorganized sector –
education and assimilation
commenced. Certification?
•Need for more organized
sector DA’s – local /
international?
•Establish / Encourage supply
chain formation
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•IT industry/MAIT fully engaged
•Need to incorporate other Corporate Houses
industry sectors and
associations. Speed is essence.
Manufacturer User
•Coordinating body in place since
Nodal 12-18 months
Body •Needs formalizing ( & statutory
authority ?)
•Advisory role to the growing
initiative
•Greater integration with industrial
Disposal Agency bodies and other government
bodies
•Draft legislation under discussion
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 WeP E- waste management
initiatives
WeP Green business - deals in buying back used printer
toners and printheads and remanufactures them.
Top management decision on not selling any E-waste to
the scrap dealers.
Setting up processes to store segregated E-waste and hand
over to KSPCB authorised recycler: E-Parisara.
E-waste management would be an integrated module in ISO
14001 training and awareness throughout the country.
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Consider E-waste management in our activities and
products.

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Together let’s save the earth !
 Green Print head mfg Line

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Together let’s save the earth !
 Green Toner machineries

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Together let’s save the earth !
 WeP – Saahas E-waste collection campaign :
International Earth Day – World Environment
Day
April 22 June 5

WeP along with Saahas set up 9

collection centres in Bangalore
Landmark,Forum Mall G.K Vale - M.G Road
G K Vale - Jayanagar G K Vale – Indiranagar
Fabmall - Bannerghatta Road Fabmall – Indiranagar
Safina Plaza Fitness One- Jayanagar
Fitness One – Kormangala

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Together let’s save the earth !
 WeP – Saahas E-waste
collection campaign
International Earth Day - World Environment
Day

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Together let’s save the earth !
 WeP – Saahas E-waste
collection campaign
Earth Day – April 22,06
prog.

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Together let’s save the earth !
 WeP – Saahas E-waste collection
campaign

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 Thank You

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