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Primary Inventorization of Electronic Waste in Bhopal City

P P. S. Chandel1 * , S. Sarsaiya2 , S. Gautam2 , G. Singh Mandloi2 , V. Nigam2 and R. Gour 2

1 School of Environmental Biology, A.P.S. University, Rewa, Madhya Pradesh India

2 International Institute of Waste Management (IIWM), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh India

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.9.3.31

The current practices of e-waste management in India suffer from a number of drawbacks like the difficulty in inventorization, unhealthy conditions of informal recycling, inadequate legislation, poor awareness and reluctance on part of the corporate to address the critical issues.The study was focused onto inventorise the electronic waste of Bhopal city to generate database for future action plan. The household and business entities, institutions were selected for inventorization of electronic waste.A total of 150 sets of questionnaires were collected through site visit interviews. Of these, 70 questionnaires were collected from household respondents, and 80 to business entities and institutions respondents. After the survey, finding showed that total e-waste generated from household was822126.6kg/year and from Business entities and institutions was128853.7 kg/year. The total amount of e-waste generation annually from Bhopal was 950 MT/year.The findings of the study will be useful for to build policy framework as well as action plan for their proper management.

Electronic waste; Hazardous; Heavy metals; Inventorization; Recycling

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Chandel P. P. S, Sarsaiya S, Gautam S, Mandloi G. S, Nigam V, Gour R. Primary Inventorization of Electronic Waste in Bhopal City. Curr World Environ 2014;9 (3) DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.9.3.31

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Chandel P. P. S, Sarsaiya S, Gautam S, Mandloi G. S, Nigam V, Gour R. Primary Inventorization of Electronic Waste in Bhopal City. Curr World Environ 2014;9(3). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=6837

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