A workshop on e-waste management was organised here on Friday at Maulana Azad central library, Bhopal.
The workshop ‘E-Waste Management and Environment’ was jointly organised by central library and a voluntary organisation, Sarthak Community Development and Public Welfare Organisation. Notably, Sarthak Sarthak Community Development and Public Welfare Organisation work for e-waste management and since many years it has been working to improve the current situation of e-waste.
During the workshop the as many as 200 citizens including students were present and learnt about the e-waste management. Experts Imtiyaz Ali and Nishit Raj conducted the workshop.
While addressing the audience, Imtiyaz Ali said that with the changing time and the advanced facilities, the requirement of electronic equipments is increasing and more and more advanced electronics are being launched in the market. With the launch of these new products, the old ones are discarded. According to a survey, a large amount of electronic equipments are discarded by the users. But only 1.6 per cent of the discarded electronic items are used efficiently and appropriately.
With the misuse of these electronic items, the environment is also badly affected.
He said that these electronic products contain a huge amount of plastic, chromium, lead and many other harmful metals that prove to be dangerous for the environment. He further said that the misuse of the e-waste is not only harming the environment but it is also damaging the health of human beings. He informed that the organization with the help of BMC collect e-waste from door to door. The organisation then removes plastic from all the waste materials and sends rest of the chemicals to Bangalore for recycling the e-waste, he further informed.
Further, Nishit said that the new generation will face problems if e-waste will not be used efficiently and properly. He said that a public participation is needed for a proper e-waste management.
To improve this situation. it’s impotant to inform people know about what e-waste management is, how it is implemented and what are the basics of recycling the electronic equipments and how they can be reused.