NEW DELHI, 10 JUNE: Barely 4.5 per cent of India’s e-waste gets recycled due to absence of proper infrastructure, legislation and framework for disposing off electronic gadgets and products that have reached the dead-end, says a study. The study by apex industry body Assocham released on the occasion of World Environment Day noted that growing at a compounded annual growth rate of about 20 per cent, India generates more than 4.4 lakh tons of e-waste annually and almost half of all the unused and end-of-life electronic products lie ideally in landfills, junkyards and warehouses. It said computer equipment accounts for almost 68 per cent of e-waste material followed by telecommunication equipment (12 per cent), electrical equipment (eight per cent), medical equipment (seven per cent) and other equipment including the household e-scrap account for the remaining five per cent. “Over 90 per cent of the e-waste generated in India is managed by the unorganised sector and the scrap dealers in this market dismantle the disposed off products instead of recycling the same,” said Mr DS Rawat, Asocham secretary-general. “However, most of the discarded products can be recycled, refurbished and redeployed going down the value chain and can be reused by a bit of reconstruction process thereby reducing the overall impact on the environment,” he said. Submitting its views on Implementation of E-waste Rules 2011 ~ Guidelines to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) chairperson, Ms Mira Mehrishi, Assocham on behalf of the industry requested the government to allow the electronic goods’ producers with a collection centre facility to take single authorisation for EPR and for collection centre under the same application.