ELECTRONIC WASTE MANAGEMENT

1. ABV INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND
MANAGEMENT
GWALIOR - 474 015
Submitted To: Submitted By:
Rajesh Rajgopal Aarti Chouhan (IPG2016-001)
Bhookya Pooja (IPG2016-027)
Naresh Singh Paraste(2016IPG-058)
Seminar
On
Electronic Waste
Management

2. Content
 INTRODUCTION
 WHAT IS E-WASTE?
 MANAGEMENT OF E-WASTE
 E-WASTE GUIDELINES: SALIENT FEATURES
 SPECIAL E-WASTE CHALLENGES
 PLANNING AN E-WASTE PROGRAM
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES

3. INTRODUCTION
 Industrial revolution followed by the advances in
information technology during the last century has radically
changed people's lifestyle.
 Although this development has helped the human race,
mismanagement has led to new problems of contamination
and pollution.

4. WHAT IS E-WASTE ?
 Electronic Waste (e-waste) comprises of wastes generated
from used electronic devices and house hold appliances
which are not fit for their original intended use.
 E-wastes contain over 1000 different substances many of
which are toxic and potentially hazardous to environment
and human health.

5. MANAGEMENT OF E-WASTE
It is estimated that 75% of electronic items
are stored due to uncertainty of how to
manage it. These electronic junks lie
unattended in houses, offices, warehouses
etc. and normally mixed with household
wastes, which are finally disposed off at
landfills.
 inventory management,
 production-process modification,
 volume reduction,
 recovery and reuse.

6. e-Waste guidelines: Salient features
The guidelines notified in April 2008 - basic guidance
document identifying and recognizing fundamental
principles:
 Producer Responsibility
 RoHS (Restriction on Hazardous Substances)
 Best practices
 Insight into technologies for various levels of recycling
The guidelines explicitly mention the need for a separate
legislation for implementing ‘Producer Responsibility

7. SPECIAL E-WASTE CHALLENGES
 High Volume of e-Waste (the highest growing stream of
urban solid waste generation),
 Limits or restrictions to dump e-waste with Municipal Solid
Waste in Landfills,
 Growing number of Product Types,
 Heavy, Bulky and complex Waste to process,
 Requires special logistics and new handling facilities, with
new e-waste processing Technology

8. PLANNING AN E-WASTE PROGRAM
 Determine what is best for your community or
clients/consumers
 Develop a Public or Private + Public or BtoB Program
 Define program Goals
 Evaluate Existing Logistics and/ or Infrastructure

9. CONCLUSION
 Electronic and electrical equipments cannot be avoided in
today’s world.
 So also is the case of waste electronic and electrical
equipments.
 As long as this is a necessary evil, it has to be best
managed to minimize its adverse impacts on environment.

10. References
 e-waste, ewasteguide.info - a knowledge base for the sustainable
recycling of e-Waste, Hazardous Substances in e-waste,
http://ewasteguide. info/hazardous_substances, (2010).
 D. Sinha-Khetriwal, P. Kraeuchi and M. Schwaninger, A
comparison of electronic waste recycling in Switzerland and in
India, Environ Impact Assess Rev. 25, pp. 492-504 (2005).
 H. Aizawa, H. Yoshida and S. I. Sakai, Current results and future
perspectives for Japanese recycling of home electrical
appliances, Res Conserv Recycl. 52, pp. 1399-1410 (2008).
 E-waste: Environmental Problems and Current Management G.
Gaidajis*, K. Angelakoglou and D. Aktsoglou , Department of
Production Engineering and Management, School of
Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 67100, Xanthi,
Greece.

11. Thanks