India’s initiatives to tackle e-waste: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 14 February 2023

India’s initiatives to tackle e-waste:

✅Extended Producer Responsibility; Design for Environment; (3Rs) Reduce, Reuse, Recycle technology platform for linking the market facilitating the circular economy aim to encourage consumers to correctly dispose of the e-waste.

✅E-Waste ( Management ) rules 2022

✅India has tried to tackle this unregulated industry and introduced a series of laws in 2011 and 2016 mandating the authorization and registration of all e-waste recycling facilities, along with directives for workers to use protective equipment while dismantling the waste. ✅India’s first e-waste clinic to be set up in Bhopal