E-waste and collection centers in Bangalore

Electronic waste may be defined as discarded computers, its appliances, office electrEonic equipment, entertainment device electronics, mobile phones, television sets, and refrigerators.

E-waste is an electron waste it has become hazardous to the environment in recent decades every person have their individual electronic instruments mobile has become the basic need of everyone. With that their appliances that too they will use for maximum two years after that purchasing new one. This is not only for mobile it has become for everything to human being.

You know an estimated fifty million a lot of E-waste is produced annually. The USA discards thirty million computers annually and 100 million phones are disposed of in Europe annually. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that only 15–20% of e-waste is recycled, the remainder of those electronics goes directly into landfills and incinerators.

India is fifth place in producing E-waste within the world. Mumbai tops the list, followed by New Delhi, Bangalore, and Chennai. State-wise Maharashtra ranks first in generation of electronic waste, followed by Tamilnadu and Uttar Pradesh.

E-waste usually includes discarded computer monitors, motherboards, cathode ray tubes (CRTs), printed circuit board (PCB), mobile phones and chargers, compact discs, headphones, white goods such as liquid crystal displays (LCD)/ plasma televisions, air conditioners, refrigerators etc.

The electronic equipment contains some hazardous chemicals like lead, mercury, cadmium, brominated flame retardants, chromium, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons etc. these will affect the health of living beings. Its more dangerous preferably for a child, while consumption of food or water etc.

These are the following systems get affected

• Central nervous system
• Digestive system
• Respiratory system
• Immune system

So one should not through these waste into outside it will affect the environment also.

Following are the e-waste collecting centers in Bangalore

1. Kasa Rasa 1 – Premises of Hot Mix Plant, 80 Feet Road, Koramangala 6th Block, Ejipra. Timings: 10 AM to 6 PM (Closed on Sunday)
2. Kasa Rasa 2 – High Tension wire ground, Koramangala 5th Block, near Hotel Empire. Timings: 10 AM to 6 PM (Closed on Sunday)
3. Hippocampus Library,525,16th Main, Koramangala 3rd Block, Bangalore – 560034, Phone: 080-25630206, Timings: 10 AM to 7 PM (Closed on Mondays)
4. Saahas Office – #21, Ground Floor, MCHS Colony,5th C Cross,16th Main, BTM Layout 2nd Stage, Bangalore – 560076 Phone: 080-41689889, Timings: 9:30 AM to 6 PM (Monday to Friday), 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM on Saturday, (Closed on Sundays)
5. Kasa Rasa 3-Survey No 15, (ORR – Whitefield Bypass Road)., Alpine Eco Rd, Doddanekundi Extension, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560048, Phone:080 4168 9889

The following links will give more idea about e-waste and its rules as per Indian government

http://rajyasabha.nic.in/rsnew/publication_electronic/E-Waste_in_india.pdf

http://www.moef.gov.in/sites/default/files/EWM%20Rules%202016%20english%2023.03.2016.pdf