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This month’s issue takes on the second issue—and revisits a trend we looked at in April last year: The growing problem of e-waste, and what is being done about it. While last year we looked at the national picture, with attempts by the West to dump their electronic junk, this month’s issue looks at Bangalore’s e-waste problem. It’s pretty grim, and the bizarre thing is that its IT-savvy population seems blissfully unaware.
However, there is a silver lining to this story. Germany and India have joined hands to deal with the problem, and with German know how, a properly built facility will be constructed as landfill for electronic junk. However, local residents are not thrilled at the prospect of having a hazardous waste landfill in their midst, so government agencies are scrambling to woo them and assuage their fears.
We present a light, fun story of a sports competition with a difference: a robot-sports contest. What’s the South Asian angle, you ask? It’s our young reporter Neil Gupta, all of 14 years old. We thought it would be fun to give readers an example of how science can excite our youngsters.
Did you know that both the Maharashtra state government and the Manmohan Singh-led coalition government at the center have an ambitious plan to give Mumbai a makeover?
Their model was Shanghai, the city whose blistering growth is a symbol of the amazing dynamism of resurgent China. However, it’s one thing to plan, quite another to execute it in a complex democracy like India.
Political compulsions have thrown a spanner in the initial plans, and now it’s unclear when Mumbai will actually get the radical makeover its proponents dreamed of. We present a detailed story in this issue.
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Taking on E-Waste: Bangalore Battle
A Siliconeer Report
If you think Bangalore's IT revolution is about to take India into the next age, hold your applause. There is another side to the IT revolution that few talk about. A huge pile of electronic junk is creating a long-term hazard. Now HAWA (Hazardous Waste Management Project), an Indo-German joint collaboration, is taking on the challenge by building a facility at Dobbospet, 45 km from the city. A Siliconeer report.
A time bomb is ticking in Bangalore, India’s hi-tech capital, but most of its six million inhabitants are largely unaware of the threat,” the BBC reported in a recent article on its Web site. “Home to more than 1,200 foreign and domestic technology firms, Bangalore figures prominently in the danger list of cities faced with e-waste hazard.”
As many as 1,000 tons of plastics, 300 tons of lead, 0.23 tons of mercury, 43 tons of nickel and 350 tons of copper are annually generated in Bangalore. More than 300 small industrial units operate in metal extraction waste from dumped computers.
The German government has stepped in with an innovative program to take on the challenge. Advisory Services in Environmental Management — ASEM — is a joint program of the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests and the German Agency for Technical Cooperation — GTZ. (See box)
It is helping the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board implement HAWA — a Hazardous Waste Management System (See box) — and develop a TSDF — Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facility — which will be in the centre of a system of disposal and management of hazardous wastes. The focus will be on waste minimization and abatement efforts in the generating industries as well as recycling and reuse of waste.
”The increasing settlement of manufacturing industries and the rapid development of the economy in Karnataka are leading to state courts and the Supreme Court taking actions concerning the consequences of uncontrolled disposal of industrial waste,” ASEM says in its Web site.
While the volume of hazardous waste generated is relatively slight by comparison with other states, ASEM says that in view of the uncontrolled disposal it represents a high hazard potential for human health and the environment. Contamination via water, soil and the atmosphere leads to destruction of the ecological balance.
“Moreover, it is above all the poor population groups who live in the vicinity of hazardous waste producing industries or along sewer lines, or who enter into contact with hazardous wastes as a result of illegal waste disposal sites, which are most severely affected,” says ASEM. “In addition, pollution of water resources leads to diseases, particularly among the poorer population groups who are unable to afford hygienically safe drinking water. Such diseases can also be triggered by accumulation of pollutants in the food chain.”
Domestic e-waste including computers, refrigerators, televisions and mobiles contain around 1,000 different toxic materials. Beryllium, found in computer motherboards, and cadmium in semiconductors are poisonous carcinogens. Chromium in floppy disks, lead in batteries and computer monitors and mercury in alkaline batteries and fluorescent lamps also pose severe health risks.
Alarmed by the electronic pile up, Bangalore resident Shetty Sreenath has set up Asia’s first e-waste crematorium, the Indian Computer Crematorium, in India’s technology hub.
“Here we neither bury nor burn electronic waste. It is done through a mechanical dry recycling process,” he told the BBC.
Meanwhile, HAWA is facing hurdles setting up its facility in Dobbespet. Its proposed facility in Shidlaghatta is locked up in litigation. In Dobbespet the local community is up in arms because they aren’t thrilled with the idea of having a hazardous waste disposal facility in their neighborhood, unsure of its effect on their soil and groundwater.
Facility builders have responded with a six-month training program for the local population in a 5-km radius of the site to educate them on the scientific features and safety aspects incorporated in a modern landfill and more such programs are in the offing. Religious leaders, the local elected body and NGOs are also involved in these programs.
The Dobbespet project in terms of the technology of the landfill and transportation provisions of hazardous waste will meet European environmental regulations, which standard-wise are superior to Indian regulations.
The life-span of the project involves a 20-year operational period and 30-year post operational period. One company will be authorized for the collection of hazardous waste from all their generating industries.
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