India’s E-Waste Scenario

Since over a decade, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has become a focal point, where people approach, with confidence, for Environmental Justice. Though, during January 2021, only 1% of NGT matters was related to e-wastes, it has wide implications. There was a time, India was not having adequately convincing data on e-waste generation and disposal. We relied mostly on data originating from far across the borders. India was reported to be 5th largest producer of e-waste. It was producing two million or 20 Lakh tonnes of e-waste in 2016. The largest e-waste generating cities are Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai and Kolkata. Growing activism, genuinely supported by NGT has triggered scientific studies in India. As per CPCB, the estimated generation of e-waste for financial year 2019–20 is 1,014,961.2 tonnes for 21 types of EEE. Read more

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