Wastes especially electronic wastes have been increasing at a high rate.
Increased amount of wastes (electronic wastes) has been faced by many governments, for which they are looking for possible and effective solutions.
All these electronic wastes like the used electronic goods that we consumers throw off whenever we purchase a current one, the expired electronic goods, outdated ones, etc., are a huge problem or rather say danger we are facing today. As unlike other wastes, these wastes radiate harmful rays, discharge poisonous chemicals and are not biodegradable. Therefore they remain and go on causing harm to the whole ecosystem.
What government generally uses to do is they dump the wastes outside the cities, in a remote place. Some rules are there regarding the minimum distance from the local habitats, can't just dump them in open, digging ground and dumping and then covering it up again is the proper way. How much deep hole is to be dug is again done according to the government rules. All these rules were made after proper scientific experiments and by expert’s suggestions.
But the main problem associated with this remedy is that the space is limited and the wastes have been increasing day-by-day. We are running out of appropriate space to dump them safely.
Also, dumping them inside the ground doesn't stop them from emitting harmful chemicals that through soil goes and mix up with the underground water (though to prevent this the wastes are dumped into deeper layers much below the layer where the underground water is present). These chemicals travels underground and mix with the water bodies, which is a bigger concern.
Thus, governments and environmentalists are looking for alternative options.
Many policies were suggested by various experts and researchers among which the most accepted one is the "Extended Role/Duty/Responsibility of the Producers". That is basically, the producers of the various electronic goods would take up the responsibility of their respective used, expired, rejected, outdated or thrown products. Mostly what they do is they either buyback their products or there is a scheme where the consumers can return it back to the respective producer company and then the companies recycle them.
But the biggest challenge is to make this happen that is to run this whole circular path/system, where a product gets produced and after its lifecycle comes back to the same place to get used in recycling process.
Now the question is how to achieve this?
Will take this up in my next writing.
Increased amount of wastes (electronic wastes) has been faced by many governments, for which they are looking for possible and effective solutions.
All these electronic wastes like the used electronic goods that we consumers throw off whenever we purchase a current one, the expired electronic goods, outdated ones, etc., are a huge problem or rather say danger we are facing today. As unlike other wastes, these wastes radiate harmful rays, discharge poisonous chemicals and are not biodegradable. Therefore they remain and go on causing harm to the whole ecosystem.
What government generally uses to do is they dump the wastes outside the cities, in a remote place. Some rules are there regarding the minimum distance from the local habitats, can't just dump them in open, digging ground and dumping and then covering it up again is the proper way. How much deep hole is to be dug is again done according to the government rules. All these rules were made after proper scientific experiments and by expert’s suggestions.
But the main problem associated with this remedy is that the space is limited and the wastes have been increasing day-by-day. We are running out of appropriate space to dump them safely.
Also, dumping them inside the ground doesn't stop them from emitting harmful chemicals that through soil goes and mix up with the underground water (though to prevent this the wastes are dumped into deeper layers much below the layer where the underground water is present). These chemicals travels underground and mix with the water bodies, which is a bigger concern.
Thus, governments and environmentalists are looking for alternative options.
Many policies were suggested by various experts and researchers among which the most accepted one is the "Extended Role/Duty/Responsibility of the Producers". That is basically, the producers of the various electronic goods would take up the responsibility of their respective used, expired, rejected, outdated or thrown products. Mostly what they do is they either buyback their products or there is a scheme where the consumers can return it back to the respective producer company and then the companies recycle them.
But the biggest challenge is to make this happen that is to run this whole circular path/system, where a product gets produced and after its lifecycle comes back to the same place to get used in recycling process.
Now the question is how to achieve this?
Will take this up in my next writing.
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