<p class="title">Delhi government on Thursday approved setting up of an e-waste eco park in the city, the first in the country, for scientific and environmentally safe processing of electronic waste items, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The government will soon appoint a consultant for setting up of the e-waste park that will have an authorised refurbishing market as a secondary product sale market for electronic goods, batteries, chargers, laptops, personal computers and mobiles, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Currently Delhi releases about 2 lakh tonnes of e-waste per year and it is mainly handled and recycled by informal recyclers. At the eco-park recycling, refurbishing, and dismantling of waste will be done in a scientific and environmentally safe manner, he said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">There will also be collection centres across 12 zones in the city to channelise e-waste, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Delhi government is the first one to start this project. No other state has started working on this yet. During the Cabinet meeting, the proposal for e-waste park was approved and a consultant for the same will be appointed soon,” Sisodia said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The e-waste park will provide infrastructure, training and tools to the operators in the informal sector to groom them as formal recyclers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Being an integrated facility, it will accommodate various handlers in the ecosystem such as e-waste refurbishers, dismantlers, recyclers, plastic waste processors and others in the same premises, said a government statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The e-waste eco-park will have all types of processing and recycling units of the materials recovered from e-waste sites, it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It will have facilities for extraction of precious metals like gold, silver, copper among others, especially from Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) through high-end technologies. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The activities in the e-waste park will be targeted towards the small and medium scale enterprises clusters involved in e-waste recycling, the statement said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There will be end-to-end processing of e-waste with zero landfill. Rare earth metals and precious metals like copper, silver, gold, aluminium and reusable plastic extracted in the park will be transferred to the mainstream production line. E-waste, it added.</p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>
<p class="title">Delhi government on Thursday approved setting up of an e-waste eco park in the city, the first in the country, for scientific and environmentally safe processing of electronic waste items, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The government will soon appoint a consultant for setting up of the e-waste park that will have an authorised refurbishing market as a secondary product sale market for electronic goods, batteries, chargers, laptops, personal computers and mobiles, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Currently Delhi releases about 2 lakh tonnes of e-waste per year and it is mainly handled and recycled by informal recyclers. At the eco-park recycling, refurbishing, and dismantling of waste will be done in a scientific and environmentally safe manner, he said. </p>.<p class="bodytext">There will also be collection centres across 12 zones in the city to channelise e-waste, he said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The Delhi government is the first one to start this project. No other state has started working on this yet. During the Cabinet meeting, the proposal for e-waste park was approved and a consultant for the same will be appointed soon,” Sisodia said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The e-waste park will provide infrastructure, training and tools to the operators in the informal sector to groom them as formal recyclers.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Being an integrated facility, it will accommodate various handlers in the ecosystem such as e-waste refurbishers, dismantlers, recyclers, plastic waste processors and others in the same premises, said a government statement.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The e-waste eco-park will have all types of processing and recycling units of the materials recovered from e-waste sites, it said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It will have facilities for extraction of precious metals like gold, silver, copper among others, especially from Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) through high-end technologies. </p>.<p class="bodytext">The activities in the e-waste park will be targeted towards the small and medium scale enterprises clusters involved in e-waste recycling, the statement said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">There will be end-to-end processing of e-waste with zero landfill. Rare earth metals and precious metals like copper, silver, gold, aluminium and reusable plastic extracted in the park will be transferred to the mainstream production line. E-waste, it added.</p>.<p><strong>Watch the latest DH Videos here:</strong></p>