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E-waste recycling to be regulated [1]

In order to check proliferating hazardous e-waste recycling units in the national capital, Delhi Government is roping in private sector to regulate the process. "We have asked the private sector to come forward to develop an electronics waste management project on the basis of public-private partnership,' Delhi Environment Secretary JK Dadoo told PTI here. Delhi is emerging as the world's capital for e-waste recycling, a hazardous activity taking place without any regulations with the major dismantling taking place in unorganisedinformal sector.

Publication Date: 
26/05/2008
Times Of India (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Recyclable Waste [3], Hazardous Waste [4], Electronic Waste [5], Delhi [6]
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