NATIONAL LEGAL REGIME ON E-WASTE MANAGEMENT IN INDIA
Abstract
The choice of disposal depends not only on the legislative framework of a particular country and its implementation but also on vigilant and aware citizenry of the nation state. E-waste is one of the fastest growing post-consumer waste streams. It can be anticipated that the quantity of e-waste is likely to increase by much higher proportion than ever happened and at the same time it is quite disappointing to know that e-waste management practices and policy level initiatives are at the nascent stage and are still undeveloped. The main difficulty in regulating e-waste is that it’s major collection, transportation, processing and recycling is predominantly in the hands of unorganized sector which though well networked but at the same time is totally unregulated and mostly handled by unskilled workers who hardly have any knowledge about the right methods to handle the same. Since all the modern nation states are coming across the problem of e-waste, to deal with this various international agreements and conventions have been enacted and have been signed by the nation states on global level. As far as India is concerned, various issues involved in e-waste management include impact of e-waste on human physiology and environment, issues regarding recycling, massive unorganized sector that deals in e-waste, legal framework implemented so far to control e-waste and lack of awareness among people with regard to disposal of e-waste. The entire paper brought to the knowledge of researcher recent scenario on e-waste management which helped researcher to quote facts and figures wherever required.
