Kochi is a place which is lacking of the
facilities and companies for recycling or disposing the e-waste in a proper way
and there are about 4,000 units working under the Pollution board of Control
but they have failed to submit the annual report of how much e-waste have been generated.
Electronic waste recycling is the only way to save the environment and yet the
place doesn't have any company or factory to do that. As per the rules they
must submit the report on the consumption of the product in the county to the
board. The rules have successfully applied on 2012 and PCB had asked the units
to submit the report. As of Kochi, there are about 4000 businesses including
the hotels, hospitals, clinics, labs, and IT companies who is responsible for generating
the waste. Only Tata Consultancy Services
and Cochin Port Trust is the only companies. Which have submitted the report
for 2013. This report was expected back in January but they ignored it.
“E-waste
includes computer, mobile phones, tube lights, CFL bulbs, etc. "PCB has no
data on how much e-waste is being generated by various units in the district
and how they dispose it off. We can take measures for e-waste management only
when we get data on its generation and the existing ways of its disposal,"
another PCB official said.” Published on a Source.
Currently, the electronic garbage is the
thing, in which many business people are seeking opportunities to make environmentalbusiness. Many people are opening their own facilities to recycle the Electronic
goods and extract the metals from the electronic devices such as Gold, silver,
copper and platinum. There is no facility, but Earth Sense, a collection agency
has the permission to collect the waste.
After collection they ship it to Hyderabad to recycle.
