WEEE Initiative in India Industry perspective looking ahead

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WEEE Initiative in India Industry perspective
looking ahead !

• Ravindranath.P
• Hewlett Packard India Ltd.
• Member E Waste Working Group, MAIT
• 26th May 2006

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Agenda

• Global Trends
• India-Where are we ?
• Unique Factors in India
• Institutional Structure _at_ Bangalore
• Learning Next Steps

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Global TrendsE Waste Recycling

• Mandatory producer take back and recycling
  legislation enacted or proposed
• EU (WEEE Directive) European countries
  (Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland)
• Japan
• Taiwan
• Australia
• Canada
• China
• General political trend in support of producer
  responsibility
• Expected to be operational in many countries
  around the globe by 2008

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Waste of Electrical and Electronic Equipment

• The EU Directive on WEEE places an obligation
• on manufacturers to take back end-of-life or
  waste
• products free of charge in an effort to reduce
  the
• amount of such waste going into landfill. At the
• same time, WEEE strongly encourages design for
• re-use as an important element to prevent waste

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What Is Producer Responsibility?

• Defined
• Shift costs of waste management from governments
  or taxpayers to manufacturers/consumers
• Require manufacturers to assume financial and/or
  physical responsibility for the collection and
  recycling of end-of-life products
• Perceived Benefits
• Manufacturers will improve product design (fewer
  toxics, ease of disassembly) to reduce
  recycling costs
• Promote sustainable development and resource
  conservation

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India - where are we ?

• Informal discussions initiated by CPCB October
  2003
• National Workshop on E Waste Management - March
  2004
• National Task Force appointed by CPCB - March
  2004
• All key stakeholders involved - Govt., Industry
  Associations, NGOs, Recyclers
• Industry Association Seminars - Dec.2004
• HAWA Project in Bangalore - May 2005
• E Waste Agency - June 2005 onwards
• National Workshop May 2006
• Draft guidelines getting discussed

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Unique factors in India

• Large geography spread
• Large Population
• Huge variety of WEEE goods
• IT ITES industries and outsourcing into India
• Culture of longer use life for goods/appliances
  
• Society need to reusenever throw and extended
  downstream use
• Precedence of scrap value for EOL goods through
  buy back schemes
• Poor data availability who? how much? when?
  where?
• Low organized recycling capacity - recycling
  mostly in the unorganized segment
• Low Awareness with stakeholders
• Investment scoping who? how much?
• Institutional framework at early stage
• need for an India solution!

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Stakeholders

• Manufacturers of Products in several industry
  segments-IT, Telecom, consumer electronics and
  appliances, Medical Electronics, Instrumentation
  etc.
• Product distribution Supply Chain
• Corporate/Business Users
• Disposal agencies-Organized and unorganized
• Government and regulatory authorities
• General public/consumers
• Municipalities
• NGOs

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What is the issue that we are trying to solve ?

• E Waste in Landfills current problem or a
  future problem ?
• Poor Recycling practices in unorganized sector
• Inadequate organized sector environmentally
  compliant recycling capacity
• Cross border flow of used equipment
• Environmental Pollution

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Learning and next steps

• Small beginnings greater participation and
  momentum required. Education and awareness
  building.
• Collaborative approach at Bangalore WEEE
  Care, EWA, etc. has been successful, Draft
  Legislation or guidelines ahead
• Volumes assessment across country and
  sectors. Scope the issue and the solution.
• Recovery model has to be economically
  sustainable model it with support from
  professional organizations
• Unorganized sector involved educate, train.
  Leverage the reach. Redeploy?
• Greater number of organized disposal agencies
  required local / international organizations?
  Location?
• Retail consumer educate and build awareness.
• Plan and deploy collection channels for retail
  consumer involving Municipalities
• Key Locations to be covered - Mumbai, Delhi,
  Bangalore, Chennai spread to other locations