siliconindia | | July 20184Astudy by Assocham-cKinetics predicts that India is likely to generate 52 lakh metric tonnes of e-Waste by 2020 (growing at 30 percent pa) and thus become one of the world's major electronic waste generators, standing at the fifth position. While the numbers are staggering, we tend to pay no heed to put a check on it. Rather, our love for new and updated electronic items are on an ever high. While that is entirely fine, what we need to manage is the way we handle the e-Wastes that we generate. Though refurbished electronic market is still catching-up in India, a major population of the electronic users refrain from buying anything second hand. So what do we do with our old electronic items? We either keep it safe in our store rooms or dispose off in our trash that either lands in the landfills or at the kabadiwalas who have no idea to treat these e-Waste ethically, thus posing immense health and environment threat. These electronic equipments contain many hazardous metallic contaminants such as lead, cadmium and beryllium & brominated flame-retardants. Of these many toxic heavy metals, the most widely used lead results in a variety of health hazards due to environmental contamination as it enters biological systems via food, water, air and soil. Hence, it becomes more important for us to dispose off these e-Waste ethically and in a more organized way. India's e-Waste management system is highly unethical and unorganized. But with India becoming the e-Waste dumping ground for several developed nations, it is more imperative to deploy ethical and organized ways to handle these wastes to eliminate any health hazards. Listing few of the e-Waste management companies in our `20 Most Promising e-Waste Management Companies - 2018', we tend to bring you a comprehensive list of companies that handle e-Waste in the most ethical ways and even enlighten corporates, individuals and society to adopt to adopt this change and be a part of the movement. Do let us know what you think! Anamika SahuManaging Editoreditor@siliconindia.comEditorialTime to Structure the e-Waste Banesiliconindia Vol 06 · Issue 12 - 2 · July, 2018 Publisher Alok Chaturvedi Managing Editor Anamika Sahu Associate Editor Susila Govindaraj Editorial Team Ananth .V John Roshan Anto Krupa P. Dave Shefali Mathur Sophia Rohtagi Sujith Vasudevan Srrayvinya OLM Trisha Pragya VP - Sales & Marketing Virupakshi Pattar Advertising Managers Editorial queries editor@siliconindia.com To subscribe Visit https://www.siliconindiamagazine.com/subscribe/ or send email to subscription@siliconindia.com Cover price is Rs.150 per issue. Printed and Published By Alok Chaturvedi on behalf of SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd and Printed at Precision Fototype Services at Sri Sabari Shopping Complex, 24 Residency Road Bangalore-560025 and Published At No. 124, 2nd Floor, Surya Chambers, Old Airport Road, Murugeshpalya, Bangalore-560017. Editor Alok ChaturvediCopyright © 2018 SiliconMedia Technologies Pvt Ltd, All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher.advertise@siliconindia.comVisualisers Mohana Krishnan Manjunath Group Art DirectorAshok KumarNoidaAshu Sethi Garima AnandCirculation Manager Magendran PerumalAmeet Kumar Sahoo Abinas Patnaik Shashi Ranjan Sambit Satpathy Susnigdha Bhowmik
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