According to the Global E-Waste Monitor 2017, India generates nearly 2 million tonnes of electronic waste per year behind only the United States, China, and Japan. Around 82 per cent of the e-waste generated comes from personal devices.
We recycled only 0.036 million tonnes of e-waste in the 2016-17 financial year. Meanwhile, according to a recent ASSOCHAM report, only 1.5 per cent of the total e-waste gets recycled in India. With a growth rate of 30 per cent, e-waste generation is expected to touch a whopping 5 million tonnes by 2020.
These figures are worrisome, and there is an urgent need to address the problem of e-waste.
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Enter Karo Sambhav, a for-profit social venture offering technology-enabled e-waste management solutions. Currently spread across 29 states, 3 union territories, and over 60 cities, Karo Sambhav has collaborated with 25 producers, 2514 schools, 520 bulk consumers, 1007 repair shops, 5,000 informal sector workers including waste pickers and waste aggregators and set up multiple collection points across the country to address the e-waste problem.
Source: The Better India
