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1) Paribesh Bhawan, Head office of WBPCB, 10A, Block –LA, Sector –III, Salt Lake, Kolkata- 700091
2) Birla Institute and Technological Museum (BITM). 19A, Gurusaday Road, Ballygunje, Kolkata- 700019
3) Calcutta University, College Street Campus, 87/1, College Street, Kolkata- 700073
4) Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management (IISWBM), Management House, College Square West, Kolkata- 700073
5) Indian Museum, 27, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata-700016 [Removed]
6) Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Ltd. (CESC) office at Statesman House, 4 Chowringhee Square, Kolkata- 700001
7) Head Office of State Bank of India, Samriddhi Bhavan, 1 Strand Road, Kolkata- 700001
8) Rajabazar Science College at Rajabazar, 92, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road, Kolkata- 700009
9) Ballygunj Science College, 35, Ballygunj Circular Road, Kolkata- 700019
10) Tata Centre (2 bins – 2nd and 9th floor), 43, Jawaharlal Nehru Road, Kolkata- 700071
11) National Library, Belvedere Road, Alipore,
Kolkata- 700027 12) Science City, J.B.S Haldane Avenue, Kolkata- 700046
13) ITC Sonar Bangla Hotel, J.B.S Haldane Avenue, Kolkata- 700046
14) Treasure Island Shopping Complex, 130, Madge Lane, Park Street, Kolkata- 700016
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More as an awareness aid than a recycling campaign, a few e-waste bins dot the city.
E-Waste bins in city
Divya Dhamija
SEPTEMBER 2013
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| Write Choices : Kolkata has emerged the e-recycling hub of Eastern India, but here recycling may not always be a good thing. Recyclers such as those at Chandni Chowk, follow dangerous practices to extract the valuable metals from circuitry, allow toxic substances to leak on to pavements and generally do not efficiently recycle the whole component. |
Every single gadget that we use, sooner or later ends up in a trash. These electronic gadgets contain heavy metals and over 50 hazardous chemicals which when released, can cause severe health impacts and also it severely affects our environment when these compounds are let off into the air, water or landfills. In India, Mumbai and Delhi are the highest generators of E-waste, while Kolkata is in the danger zone.
A joint study by NGO Toxics Link and Centre for Quality Management Systems, Jadavpur University estimated that around 9000 tons of e-waste was generated in Kolkata (Calcutta) city, of which around 3000 tons was from computers and peripherals only. There are reports and indications to suggest that the city not only generates waste of its own but also receives waste from the adjoining states. By the end of the next decade the potential e-waste in the city is expected to touch 145000 tons annually.
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E-waste collection bin at ITC Sonar: ITC Hotels GM, Zubin Songadwala, drops in a circut board.
To address this problem of e-waste in the city, Toxisc Link with active support of the West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) had launched a project to set up collection mechanism for E-waste in the city, last year on 5th June 2012 on the occasion of World Environment Day.
On the same day, the first E-waste bin was placed at Paribesh Bhaban, Head Office of West Bengal Pollution Board (WBPCB) and the bin was inaugurated by Prof. Binay K. Dutta, Chairman of WBPCB. This project is under the European Union commission supporting four city projects on Establishing E-Waste Channels to Enhance Environment Friendly Recycling (WEEE Recycle). The project plan initially was to install 20 collection bins in the city but finally 15 have been placed at 14 different public locations.
These bins are serving a dual purpose of establishing collection mechanisms and creating awareness on promotion of environment friendly e-waste recycling in the city. The bins are successfully placed in important public locations for maximum visibility and impact (See box)
Monalisa Datta, the Project Manager of Toxics Link says, “Recently we have removed the bin placed at Indian Museum due to disposal of huge quantity of other wastes, except e-waste by the visitors . Hopefully we will place it at any other suitable location where it can serve its purpose in a better way.”
In places like ITC Sonar Hotel, Tata Centre, people’s response is very good as staff, visitors and who ever come, drop off their personal electronic items in the bins while places like Indian Library, Science Colleges have moderate amount of E-waste collection, continued Monalisa. The bins are linked with an authorised Gurgaon-based recycling company, which has an office in Kolkata to collect the e-wastes disposed off into the bin periodically and ensures safe recycling of E-waste, so we know that our electronic waste is not harming our environment!
As this project requires voluntary participation of the public to give in their old disposable electronics, neither they charge anything for recycling nor they give any certificates or rewards to people who drop their E-wastes in the bins. Toxic Links have done a great job and we hope everyone becomes responsible enough to throw their disposable electronic wastes in these E-waste bins only and become an environment saver!
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