Delhi to regulate recycling e-waste

"We have asked the private sector to come forward to develop an electronics waste management project on the basis of public-private partnership," Delhi Environment Secretary JK Dadoo said.     

Delhi is emerging as the world's capital for e-waste recycling, a hazardous activity taking place without any regulations with the major dismantling taking place in unorganisedinformal sector.     

 

"We want the companies to develop projects related to collection and storage of the e-waste, dismantle, segregate or extraction of valuable metals, reuse, recycling or treatment and final disposal," Dadoo said.     

An Expression of Interest has been floated by the NCT government for inviting private firms to take up all projects or individually as per their area of expertise.     

Conservative estimates put the annual volume of e-waste junk produced by discarded electronic equipment in Delhi at around 10,000 metric tonne, but experts say the actual figure is even higher.