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Is India E-Waste problem spiralling out of control

Posted by Chandra Kishore on May 24, 2011 at 8:51am

Here's a lead story today in TIME Magazine on India's ewaste problem. What do you think are the solutions?
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The high-pitched, nasal call of the neighborhood scrap collector is a familiar weekend sound in most Indian neighborhoods. In Noida, a quiet satellite city of Delhi, Ashu Kumar has been collecting old newspapers, phones, computers, digital recorders and refrigerators for the past five years. And for years, at the end of each month, Ashu treks down a dusty road leading to the Seelampur scrap market — the largest graveyard of India's ever-growing electronic waste — to sell his wares.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2071920,00.html#ixzz1NH1tYfHh

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  • Simpy Singh May 26, 2011 at 1:08am
    besides providing alternative jobs to scrap dealers, we have to look for other options left for this e-waste usage...otherwise just dropping it in clean dustbin will again find its way, in HUMAN SOCIETY ENV., via major portion of Solid waste, above or below the ground!
  • Subhajit Pal May 25, 2011 at 3:53pm

    Not only awarness programme, but we have to find some alternative jobs for these scrap dealers and workers. Because without these, successful implementation of e waste rules cannot be possible. If the livelihood for these persons will be secured then only they leave all these illegal activities.

     

    Regards,

    Subhajit Pal

  • payal pandey May 25, 2011 at 6:28am
    The best solution to tackle this problem at this moment is to create awareness about e-waste and the hazards attached to it...especially among those who work in the waste industry  (the workers) and are still not fully informed.....and a few who do not pay attention....
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