E-waste recycling to be regulated
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26/05/2008
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Times Of India (New Delhi)
In order to check proliferating hazardous e-waste recycling units in the national capital, Delhi Government is roping in private sector to regulate the process. "We have asked the private sector to come forward to develop an electronics waste management project on the basis of public-private partnership,' Delhi Environment Secretary JK Dadoo told PTI here. Delhi is emerging as the world's capital for e-waste recycling, a hazardous activity taking place without any regulations with the major dismantling taking place in unorganisedinformal sector. "We want the companies to develop projects related to collection and storage of the ewaste, dismantle, segregate or extraction of valuable metals, reuse, recycling or treatment and final disposal,' Dadoo said. An Expression of Interest has been floated by the NCT government for inviting private firms to take up the projects. PTI