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being thrown every year. Can Bengaluru is engaged in one
you guess how much? Even if such effort. It has developed
the weight of all the commercial indigenous technology for
planes that have been built in the extracting precious metals from
history of mankind is combined, Printed Circuit Boards.
it will not equal the amount of Similarly, Ecoreco working
e-waste being released. It is in Mumbai has developed
like every second 800 laptops a system to collect e-waste
are being thrown away. You will through a Mobile App.
be amazed to know that about Attero Recycling of Roorkee,
17 types of Precious Metals can Uttarakhand has obtained many
be extracted from this e-waste patents in this field worldwide. It
through different processes. This has also earned a lot of awards
includes Gold, Silver, Copper by preparing its own e-waste
and Nickel, so utilizing e-waste Recycling Technology. Tonnes
is no less than making ‘Kachre of e-waste is being collected in
Ko Kanchan’. Today there is no Bhopal through a Mobile App
dearth of start-ups that are and the Website ‘Kabadiwala’.
doing innovative work in this There are many such examples.
direction. At present, around All these are helping to make
500 e-waste Recyclers are India a Global Recycling Hub;
associated with this sector and but, there is also an essential
many new entrepreneurs are condition for the success of
also being associated with it. such Initiatives – that is, people
This sector has also given direct have to be made aware of safe
employment to thousands useful methods of disposal
of people. E-Parisaraa of of e-waste. Those working in
the field of e-waste say that
at present, only 15-17 percent
e-waste is being recycled every
year.

My dear countrymen, today
there is a lot of talk about climate
change and the conservation of
biodiversity all over the world. We
have been continuously talking
about India’s concrete efforts
in this direction. You will also be
very happy to know about the
work that India has done for its
wetlands. Some listeners might
be wondering what wetlands
are? ‘Wetland sites’ are those
places where water remains

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