Before knowing about e-waste management certificate one should have an absolute brief about what is e waste. So e waste or electronic waste is described as discarded Electronic Or electrical devices. For say used Electronics which are meant for refurbishment, reuse, resale, salvage, recycling through material recovery, or disposal are considered to be as e waste. If we process this e waste informally in any developing country it can lead to adverse human health effects and environmental pollution
Components of Electronic waste such as CPUs, contain potentially harmful materials such as lead, cadmium, beryllium, or brominated flame retardants. Thus the recycling and disposal of e waste may involve significant risk to health of the workers and communities in developed countries and great care must be taken to avoid unsafe and harmful exposure in the process of recycling operations and the leaking of materials such as harmful heavy metals from landfills and incinerator ashes.
Coming towards the management of the e-waste it is one of the most important task to be done on a large scale specially in a country like India as electronic waste is one of the most common thing to be kept in an eye as it is emerging to be as a serious public health and environmental issue in india. India is reportedly the “fifth largest electronic waste producer in the world”, India generates approximately 2 million tons of e-waste annually and also undisclosed amount of e-waste is imported from other countries all around the world.
After knowing all the importance of the electronic waste management and it’s real need for our country we should go forward towards the very important step to be taken in order to manage the e waste.
That important step is to get an e-waste management certificate. As it is already explained that e waste can be Extremely harmful and hazardous for the human health and environment if done in an inappropriate way. Only a very small percentage of e-waste is been recycled in an appropriate way. According to an Environmental Protection Agency report, the United States discards over 2.35 million tons of electronic products annually, and only about 25 % is recycled. Even at the time when recycled, e-waste may not be managed responsibly by us, it may result in environmental and health risks from hazardous materials as well as data security risks related to data destruction and disposal.
Industry certification programs set requirements for safer recycling and disposal of e-waste. The only Responsible Recycling , Recycling Industry Operating Standard™ and e-Stewards programs include guidelines that define responsible and effective e-waste management.
NSF International Strategic Registrations (NSF-ISR), a subsidiary of NSF International, is fully accredited by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) to handle your certification requirements for Recycling industry operating standards, RIOS™ and e-Stewards.
Some of the rules and regulations related to e waste in India are as follows:-
- The hazardous waste ( management and handling) rules 2003
- The hazardous waste ( management handling and transboundary movement) rules 2008
- Management of e-waste, guidelines, 2008
- E waste management( management and handling) rules 2011
- Electronic waste handling and disposal draft law 2013.
These were some of the important rule and regulations stated by Indian government in order to protect our country from unwanted hazardous and harmful effects on human health and environment. E waste need to be treated in a perpetual way thus certification is one of the most important part to let this activity take it’s pace and improvise the environment without any kind of decoration or destruction to any sector of our society
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