Planning strategies for E-waste cluster- Northeast district, NCT Delhi

Abstract

Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) is the fastest and rapid growth in the streams of wastes due to Industrial Technology (IT) obsolescence of the electronic products, which leads to generating large volumes of electronic waste in urban areas. The aim of the document is to capture and assess the type of waste coming to the informal market. The characteristics of various e-waste market penetration have a vital role in the unorganized sector in managing the process of e-waste. The economic benefit in the unauthorized recycling units has attracted various stakeholders in the management of e-waste. The variety of informal operations is taking place from collecting, importing to recycling at the operating units. To assess the major contribution of the informal sector in handling the e-waste recycling and failure of the formal system. There is a crucial need to address the inflow management of e-waste in the scrap markets. For establishing E-waste management, we need to quantify the characteristics of various electrical components situated in the informal markets, identify the key players involved at the local management especially at the end stage of processing. The standard global e-waste material flow model has been discussed to understand the mechanisms of stakeholders and management. A review of current scenarios of e-waste management in different countries and regularity frameworks in India has been considered. There is an essential need to study the socio-economic feasibility of workers involved in the market. The financial viability of E-waste management in the informal sector is abundant than the formal sector. Delhi is the only regional hub of scrap markets located in different districts. The trade chain of e-waste flow from the formal market to the informal market. The previous research studies have primarily relied on the field survey in identifying the e-markets mechanism and lack potential capacity of the key players involved in it. The informal market holds the processing units with a lack of financial and infrastructural capacity. The issues pertaining to the lack of infrastructure services in the inflow management of e-waste have degraded the final end cycle process. With lots of complications and problems, the indicators for carrying out thevi Analytical Hierarchy Process AHP tool has been used for comparing the pairwise problems. In the site, there is a lack of comprehensive collection facility, storage facility and barely have legal authorization for the processing units. Through our findings and analysis, it is also found that there is a requirement of strengthening the key players’ hence different models have been applied considering the important role of urban local bodies which is lacking in the area. There is a huge gap between the generators and the final disposals which need to be bridged by improving the channelization of e-waste and establishing the planning interventions for the collection system to ensure accountability in the management