Lok Sabha Question No. 77 (STARRED), answered on 2017-02-07
Subject: e-Waste Processing Techniques
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: PONGULETI SRINIVASA REDDY

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. *77

TO BE ANSWERED ON 07.02.2017

## e-Waste Processing Techniques

*77. SHRI PONGULETI SRINIVASA REDDY:

Will the Minister of ENVIRONMENT, FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE be pleased to state:

- (a) whether  in  recent  years  India  has  emerged  as  a  major  source  of electronic  waste  generation,  thereby  posing  a  serious  environmental

threat and if so, the details thereof; (b) the  details  of  e-waste  processing  centres  operational  in  the  country, State-wise; and

- (c) the  measures  taken/proposed  to  be  taken  by  the  Government  to introduce environmental friendly e-waste processing techniques in the country?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  FOR  ENVIRONMENT FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE ( SHRI ANIL MADHAV DAVE)

(a)  to (c):  A Statement is laid on the Table of the House.

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Statement referred to in reply to Parts (a) to (c) of the Lok Sabha Starred Question  No  77  for  answer  on  7 th February,  2017  regarding  'e-Waste Processing Techniques' raised by SHRI PONGULETI  SRINIVASA REDDY

- (a) The  country's  economic  growth  with  rise  in  per  capita  income  and technological  innovations  coupled  with  high  obsolescence  rate  of electronic and electrical equipment are leading to increase in the rate of generation of e-waste. Central Pollution Control Board had projected 8.0  lakh  tonnes  of  e-waste  generation  in  the  year  2010.  As  per  the United Nations University report, 'The Global E-Waste Monitor 2014', 17  lakh  tonnes  of  e-waste  generation  was  reported  in  the  country  in 2014.  The report notes that  the  per  capita  generation  of  e-waste  in 2014 in India was 1.3 kg/inhabitant, which was much less than that in the  USA  (22.1  kg/inhabitant),  Japan  (17.3  kg/inhabitant),  China  (4.4 kg/inhabitant) and many other countries.
- (b) The  total  capacity  of  178  dismantling/recycling  units  located  in  14 states  is  441085.6  metric  tonnes  per  annum . State-wise  detail  of installed  recycling/dismantling  facilities  operating  in  the  country  is  as given below:

| S. No.   | State          |   Number of Dismantlers/ Recyclers |
|----------|----------------|------------------------------------|
| 1.       | Chhattisgarh   |                                  2 |
| 2.       | Gujarat        |                                 12 |
| 3.       | Haryana        |                                 16 |
| 4.       | Karnataka      |                                 57 |
| 5.       | Madhya Pradesh |                                  3 |
| 6.       | Maharashtra    |                                 32 |
| 7.       | Odisha         |                                  1 |
| 8.       | Rajasthan      |                                 10 |
| 9.       | Punjab         |                                  1 |
| 10.      | Tamil Nadu     |                                 14 |
| 11.      | Telangana      |                                  4 |
| 12.      | Uttar Pradesh  |                                 22 |
| 13.      | Uttarakhand    |                                  3 |
| 14.      | West Bengal    |                                  1 |
|          | Total          |                                178 |

- (c) The Government has comprehensively revised e-waste (Management & handling) Rules, 2011, and notified E-Waste (Management) Rules in March, 2016 to ensure better management of e-waste in the country. The provisions of this Rule include expanding producer's responsibility, setting up of producer responsibility organizations and e-waste exchange  to  facilitate  collection  and  recycling,    assigning  specific responsibility to bulk consumers  of  electronic products for safe disposal, providing for economic incentives for collection of electronic waste,  and  other  measures  to  include  dedicated  responsibility  of electronic and electrical product producers for collection and channelizing of electronic waste  and  simplification in  permission process for dismantling and recycling facilities through single authorization based on Standard Operating Procedures (SoP) prescribed  by  Central  Pollution  Control  Board.  State  Governments have  been  entrusted  with  the  responsibility  for  earmarking  industrial space for e-waste dismantling and recycling facilities and to undertake industrial skill development; and put in place measures for safety and health  of  workers  engaged  in  dismantling  and  recycling  facilities. Further, for  resource recovery through recycling, the Ministry is coordinating  with  Ministry  of  Electronic  and  Information  Technology, which  has  already  undertaken  few  initiatives  such  as  Research  and Development  programmes  for  recycling  technology  for  extraction  of precious metals, plastics and glass, up-scaling innovative technologies,  demonstrations  through  pilot  plants  and  technology transfer.

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