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E - Waste Management
Photo Caption: From L – R Mr Shankar Prasad, Convenor, IT/ITES Panel, CII Mysore & Sr. Manager and Vertical Head, Educational Services, Excelsoft Technologies Pvt Ltd, Dr P M Kulkarni, President, Bhageerath, Mysore, Dr D G Nagaraj, Health Officer, Mysuru City Corporation (MCC), Mr Bhaskar Kalale, Chairman, CII Mysuru & President & GM India Operations, Theorem India Pvt Ltd, Dr A Ramesh, Senior Environmental Officer, KSPCB, Bangalore, Dr H Gayathri, Deputy Director, SDM Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD), Mysuru, Mr Raghava Lingegowda, Co-Convenor , IT/ITES Panel & Group Vertical Head, Theorem Inc.
Mysuru: Mysuru City Corporation is coming out with concrete and complete plan to manage electronic wastes scientifically said Dr Nagaraj, Health Officer, Mysuru City Corporation.
To create awareness and to draw stakeholder attention and adequate steps to implement towards E-Waste Management in the city, CII Mysuru in association with SDM Institute of Management and Development organised a stakeholder interaction to deliberate on “E-Waste Management in Mysuru” at SDM Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD) here on Friday. Speaking on the occasion Dr Nagaraj said “Mysuru city needs to have concrete plan with regard to E-waste management and we have already come out with action plan. Six month back we had presentation from a private company who are into e-waste management working in Bengaluru. Already we are in talk with them and we are also entering an agreement with them so that e-waste in Mysuru city is managed well. We are scientifically planning to collect e-waste from different locations and also trying to collect data. We have planned to complete a concrete scientific disposal of e-waste management which we are planning in very near future”.
Delivering talk on the subject Bhaskar Kalale, Chairman CII Mysuru said “In India E-Waste is not a problem but a menace. Hence the first thing is to do is to create awareness about what is e-waste. Even educated people in corporates are not much aware what is e-waste is. There should be focused effort; therefore we are willing to working with Mysuru City Corporation to make sure we put our brains together to start generating awareness and then suggest actionable plans. On the lines of wet waste which are being collected by visiting door to door by corporation, e-waste should also be started on similar line, such as once in a week or once in a month. Mysuru is also becoming plastic free; similar effort should also put to make Mysuru free from e waste” Mr Kalale said.
“On an average every year 50 million tonnes of E-Waste getting generated worldwide, out of which just 10 miliion tone get recycled and reused which is less than 20 percent and the rest are put into landfills. In alone 2 million tonnes of E-waste are generated; 82 percent of these E-wastes come from computers, monitors and home appliances like refrigerators, Television, etc. After US, China, Japan and Germany, India stands fifth in most polluting country in the world when it comes to e-waste. There is prediction that by 2020 e-waste from old computers in India will increase by 500 percent through discarded mobile phones by 18 times and televisions by two times higher” added Bhaskar Kalale who on the occasion assured Mysuru City Corporation for all sort of help from CII for scientific disposal of E-waste.
H Gayatri, Deputy Director, SDMIMD who also spoke on the occasion said “India is one of the biggest producers of E-waste but unfortunately e-waste is managed in unorganised and unscientific manner. Hence safe and sustainable disposal of handling e-waste is need of the hour”.
Dr Kulkarni, President in Bhageerath and Dr A Ramesh, Senior Environmental Officer, KSPCB also briefed about E-waste management, how to implement e-waste management rule, guidelines for setting up collection centre and who need to set up collection centres. Ramesh also mentioned that in Karnataka there is no recycling unit for mercury containing e-waste
E-waste poses a very daunting challenge of its management. Managing hazardous chemicals and heavy metal components without scientific and safe handling increases the chances of E-Waste ending in our dry waste and eventually into landfills which in due course will contaminate our water bodies and the top soil, leading to increased rate of cancer and other harmful diseases in the near future. Therefore, CII Mysore, in association with Mysore City Corporation and KSPCB proposes to set up a Model E-Waste Collection and Segregation Centre, wherein E-wastes are collected and segregated in Mysuru and properly handled and disposed in scientific way ensuring that the quality of urban habitat in Mysuru continues to remain one of the best in the world.
Date: 22-6-2019
Place: Mysuru
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