Marking an important step toward preventing the country's e-waste problems, the Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) has conducted a formal workshop on "E-Waste Rules for Bulk Consumers" in partnership with the Ministry of Environment & Forests and the Central Pollution Control Board and Dataserv APAC in Uttar Pradesh, Noida. Executive Director of MAIT, Anwar Shirpurwala, welcomed the gathering at the event and stressed the need for upscaling of e-waste recycling and disposal to create widespread awareness amongst Indians.
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Dr Chhanda Chowdhury, Director, Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India, said, “Realizing the concern, the Government of India has notified E-waste rules in 2011. Now, the main challenge is how to bring informal sector into the mainstream the E-waste management. These workshops organized in many states will help us create awareness about the e-waste management rules in general and for bulk consumers in particular.”      Â
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Anwar Shirpurwala said, “India being a geographically complex country, the task of creating awareness about E-waste is an exigent task. This workshop targets the bulk consumers with an aim of training organizations to spread wider awareness about e-waste management. This agenda can only be achieved if bulk consumers of electrical and electronic equipments accept their responsibility to follow the E-waste rules and channelize it through authorized collection centres or recyclers.”
The workshop also emphasized on the point that every bulk consumers shall maintain records of e-waste generated by them and make such records available for scrutiny by the State Pollution Control or the Pollution Control Committee.
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