{"id":107900,"date":"2021-02-03T09:17:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=107900"},"modified":"2021-02-03T09:18:17","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T09:18:17","slug":"india-e-waste-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/india-e-waste-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"India E-waste statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question : According to a recently released CPCB\u2019s report, how much India generated E-waste(electronic waste) in 2017-18 ?<br><\/strong>(a) 708,445 tonne<br>(b) 508,445 tonne<br>(c) 608,445 tonne<br>(d) 408,445 tonne<br><strong>Ans.(a)<br>Related facts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CPCB(Central Pollution Control Board)has recently released e-waste generation statistics.<\/li><li>According to the report, India generated 708,445 tonne e-waste in 2017-18 and 771,215 tonne the following fiscal, the report estimated.<\/li><li>In 2019-20, the figure rose 32 percent to 1,014,961 tonnes.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>E-Waste(Electronic Waste) Management Rules, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Above mentioned data belongs to 21 types of electrical and electronic equipment listed in the E-Waste Management Rules, 2016.<\/li><li>The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change notified the E-Waste Management Rules, 2016 on 23 March 2016 in supersession of the e-waste (Management &amp; Handling) Rules, 2011.<\/li><li>E-waste (Management) Rules, 2016 was enacted on October 1, 2017.<\/li><li>Over 21 products (Schedule-I) were included under the purview of the rule. These include discarded computer monitors, mobile phones, chargers, motherboards, headphones, television sets, among other appliances.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Targets &amp; actual collection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The E-Waste collection targets for 2017-18 and 2018-19 based on the rules were 35,422 tonnes and 1,54,242 tonnes, respectively.<\/li><li>The actual collection, however, was lower in both the years \u2014 25,325 tonnes in 2017-18 and 78,281 tonnes in 2018-19.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By &#8211; Pankaj Pandey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Link:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/cpcb.nic.in\/e-waste\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/cpcb.nic.in\/e-waste\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question : According to a recently released CPCB\u2019s report, how much India generated E-waste(electronic waste) in 2017-18 ?(a) 708,445 tonne(b) 508,445 tonne(c) 608,445 tonne(d) 408,445 tonneAns.(a)Related facts CPCB(Central Pollution Control Board)has recently released e-waste generation statistics. According to the report, India generated 708,445 tonne e-waste in 2017-18 and 771,215 tonne the following fiscal, the report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":107904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[2541],"class_list":["post-107900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mis","tag-miscellaneous-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107906,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107900\/revisions\/107906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}