Electronic waste

Electronic waste, e-waste, e-scrap, or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) describes loosely discarded, surplus, obsolete, or broken electrical or electronic devices.

Problems
Rapid changes in technology, changes in media (tapes, software, MP3), falling prices, and planned obsolescence have resulted in a fast-growing surplus of electronic waste around the globe. Processing technique a hopper conveys material for shredding into an unsophisticated mechanical separator, with screening and granulating machines to separate constituent metal and plastic fractions, which are sold to smelters or plastics recyclers. Such recycling machinery is enclosed and employs a dust collection system. Some of the emissions are caught by scrubbers and screens. Magnets, eddy currents, and trommel screens are employed to separate glass, plastic, and ferrous and nonferrous metals, which can then be further separated at a smelter. Leaded glass from CRTs is reused in car batteries, ammunition, and lead wheel weights,[17] or sold to foundries as a fluxing agent in processing raw lead ore. Copper, gold, palladium, silver, and tin are valuable metals sold to smelters for recycling. Hazardous smoke and gases are captured, contained, and treated to mitigate environmental threat. These methods allow for safe reclamation of all valuable computer construction materials.

The e-waste (management and handling) Rules, 2011 would recognise the producers liability for recycling and reducing e-waste in the country. The rules will come into effect from May 1, 2012.

India, at present, generates about 400,000 tonnes of e-wastes annually of which only 19,000 tonnes are getting recycled according to the recent data by hardware manufacturers association, Mait. According to Mait, around 40 per cent of the unused and obsolete electronic products sit idle at homes, godowns and warehouses as one does not know what to do with it or there is no systematic mechanism to dispose it.

bulk consumers such as enterprises and government will be responsible for recycling of the e-wastes generated by them. The bulk users have to ensure that the e-waste generated by them is channelized to authorised collection centres or is taken back by the producers. the quantity of e-waste imported in the country, customs officials said that on average, it is estimated to be more than 50,000 metric tonnes per annum.

http://www.atterobay.com/ According to research conducted by Greenpeace, Mumbai tops the country with around 50,000 tonne of e-waste every year. The figure is projected to increase to 3 lakh tonne per annum by 2011.

Currently, the total e-waste generation in Mumbai and Pune is around 5 lakh metric tonne per annum. currently e-waste recycling is carried out in two steps - dismantling and segregating. Recovery of valuable metals and resource recovery are not taking place. In developed countries, electronic waste processing usually first involves dismantling the equipment into various parts (metal frames, power supplies, circuit boards, plastics), often by hand. A typical example is the NADIN electronic waste processing plant in Novi Iskar, Bulgaria -- the largest facility of its kind in Eastern Europe. Attero Recycling Indias first integrated electronic waste (e-waste) recycling company operate on hub and spoke model in order to reduce our freight cost. Attero processed around 1,000 TPA last year and the volume is expected to touch around 10,000 tonnes in the current year. Atteros $9 million Roorkee facility in Uttarakhand has a capacity to process 36,000 TPA of ewaste. The recycling process consists of disassembly, mechanical separation of materials and metallurgical treatment. Attero retrieves precious metals present in mobile phones, laptops, computers and other items. Attero gets its raw material e-waste free or for a price mainly from corporates-original equipment manufacturers and end users. mobile phones are the most profitable for recyclers as the precious metal content is high. One tonne of cell phone contains around 100 kg of metals like gold and copper. Though it has a licence to import e-waste, Gupta said the company is not looking at that option now. e-waste is growing in India, and it will be around one million tonnes by 2015. Extracting metals from old items is 70 times less energy intensive then mining for fresh metals,

E-waste recycling in India is less than 5 p.c.

Attero Recycling is backed by two of the leading Venture Capital firms, NEA-IUV and DFJ. NEA-Indo-US Ventures is a leading venture capital firm which provides early and mid-stage funding to new or growing businesses in India and Draper Fisher Jurvetson is an eminent venture capital firm with global presence. We recently received second round of funding (around Rs. 15 crore) from Granite Hill. Granite Hill Capital Ventures LLC, an investment and advisory partnership, led this round with the fund promoted by Dr. Shailesh J. Mehta, managing general partner. Right now we generate revenue by selling of the extract metals in the market. the only one to do end-to-end recycling in India. Worldwide, there are 7-8 facilities including in the US and Europe. Though there are around 17 registered e-waste recyclers with the government, all of them, excluding us, involve in dismantling process, while the rest of the residue is exported for final recycling. 23 India's first Environmental Consultants looking into the below factors: 1. Hazardous Waste Management 2. Energy Audits 3. Carbon Offset Mapping & Analysis 4. Eco-Designs 5. Life Cycle Assessment 6. Green Buildings etc

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