South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) online facility to dispose of e-waste has been receiving good response as 1,312 citizens have registered themselves on the portal while nearly 400 have requested for e-waste disposal till now.
A senior SDMC official said that the civic agency has disposed of nearly 25 metric tons of e-waste collected from its area at ‘recycle workshop’.
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has notified the E-waste Management Rules-2016 following which the SDMC has engaged a private company on the basis of open tender for disposal of e-waste collected through an online facility.
SDMC’s IT Department has launched an application https://ewaste.mcdservices.online for submitting the online request for collecting the e-waste and has also started a toll free number-1800-123-005566 for collecting and disposing of e-waste in a scientific manner, he said.
The SDMC had started an online facility on 11th June 2021 for e-waste collection. The civic agency had partnered with the company to dispose of old and unserviceable IT equipment from the offices, citizens, RWAs, markets etc under its jurisdiction.
As per the agreement, the company purchases e-waste from the citizens through an online system and ensures disposal in a proper manner. E-Waste mainly is a general term given to electronic and electrical items like computer, transformer, freeze, switch, TV, etc which have reached end of life.
E-waste contains toxic chemicals and minerals like arsenic, cadmium, acid etc hence should be recycled in a scientific manner.