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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Pollution due to e-waste, 15/07/2019 [1]

Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Pollution due to e-waste, 15/07/2019. The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in 2005 estimated 1.47 lakh ton of ewaste in the country. As per the United Nations University report, “The Global E-Waste Monitor 2017”, 20 lakh ton of e-waste generation was reported in the country in 2016. Recently Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has developed a guideline on uniform inventorization of e-waste in the Country. As per information available with CPCB 69,414 MT of e-waste was collected, dismantled and recycled during 2017-18.
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Publication Date: 
15/07/2019
Rajya Sabha [3]
Tags:
Pollution [4], Electronic Waste [5], India [6], Parliament [7]

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Source URL: http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/question-raised-rajya-sabha-pollution-due-e-waste-15072019

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[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/Pollution due to e waste .pdf
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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/electronic-waste
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/parliament