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Time for mobile users to ring in recycling [1]

Manisha Pande / New Delhi August 09, 2010, 0:46 IST

Do you plan to discard your mobile phone or exchange it for a new one? Then consider this: Old mobile phones constitute 1,700 tonnes of the 50,000 tonnes of e-waste generated in India each year and, according to a UN report released early this year, e-waste from mobile phones is set to rise 18 times by 2020.

Publication Date: 
09/08/2010
Business Standard (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Electronic Waste [3], Waste Recycling [4], Electronics [5], Hazardous Waste [6], Greenpeace [7]

Technology Partners: MimirTech

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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/news/time-mobile-users-ring-recycling
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/newspaper/business-standard-new-delhi
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/electronic-waste
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/waste-recycling
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/electronics
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/hazardous-waste
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/greenpeace