Lok Sabha Question No. 2779 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2016-03-15
Subject: Recycling of e-Waste
Ministry: ENVIRONMENT,  FORESTS AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Asked by: DUSHYANT CHAUTALA

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

## LOK SABHA

UNSTARRED QUESTION No. 2779 TO BE ANSWERED ON 15.03.2016

## Recycling of e-Waste

## 2779.   SHRI DUSHYANT CHAUTALA:

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

- (a) whether  the  Government  is  aware  that  there  is  a  huge  gap  between  the  e-waste generated and the capacity developed to deal with it in the country;
- (b) if so, the details thereof and the reasons therefore;
- (c) the  number and recycling capacity of the e-waste recyclers/dismantlers operating in the country, State-wise; and
- (d) the  funds  allocated  and  utilized  for  construction  of  e-waste  recyclers/  dismantlers during the last three years and the current year, State-wise?

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF  STATE  (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  FOR  ENVIRONMENT,  FOREST AND CLIMATE CHANGE

## (SHRI   PRAKASH JAVADEKAR)

(a)  to  (d)    No  systematic  inventorisation  of  e-waste  generation  has  been  carried  out  in  the country. As per the estimate by the Central Pollution Control Board, the e-waste generation in 2012 was eight (8) lakh tone. The combined capacity of one forty eight (148) registered ewaste dismantling / recycling units is four lakhs fifty five thousand and fifty eight (455058) tone  per  annum.  The  State-wise  details  of  number  of  registered  dismantlers  /  recyclers  is given at Annexure .The Ministry has no programme for providing financial support to set up e-waste dismantling and recycling units. As per e- waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011, the responsibility for disposal of e- waste in environmentally sound manner is vested with the producers of electronic and electrical equipments.

To ensure better implementation of management of electronic waste, Ministry has published  draft  e-Waste  (Management)  Rules,  2015.  The  provisions  of  this  Draft  Rule include expanding producer's responsibility under Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), setting  up  of  Producer  Responsibility  Organizations,  and  e-waste  Exchange,  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.  Simplification  in  permission  process  for  dismantling  and recycling through one system of authorization instead of both registration and authorisation has been proposed.

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Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) to (d) of the Lok Sabha Unstarred Question Number 2779 for 15.03.2016 byShri DushyantChautala regarding Recycling of e-Waste

Numbers of registered e-waste dismantlers/ recyclers in various States/UTs

| S. No.   | State          |   Number registered dismantlers recyclers | of and   |   Registered Capacity in tone per annum |
|----------|----------------|-------------------------------------------|----------|-----------------------------------------|
| 1.       | Andhra Pradesh |                                         2 |          |                                   11800 |
| 2.       | Chhattisgarh   |                                         2 |          |                                    1650 |
| 3.       | Gujarat        |                                         7 |          |                                   20849 |
| 4.       | Haryana        |                                        14 |          |                                   49385 |
| 5.       | Karnataka      |                                        52 |          |                                   50318 |
| 6.       | Madhya Pradesh |                                         2 |          |                                    6585 |
| 7.       | Maharashtra    |                                        24 |          |                                   32610 |
| 8.       | Rajasthan      |                                         9 |          |                                   67470 |
| 9.       | Tamil Nadu     |                                        16 |          |                                  111931 |
| 10.      | Uttar Pradesh  |                                        16 |          |                                   73860 |
| 11.      | Uttarakhand    |                                         3 |          |                                   28000 |
| 12.      | West Bengal    |                                         1 |          |                                     600 |
|          | Total          |                                       148 |          |                                  455058 |