Increasingly, governments across India have issued a formal instruction to industries, which uses IT equipments to give their electronic waste to government authorized recyclers/handlers only. Also, India is on the verge of passing an EPR legislation which holds the manufacturers and users of Electrical & Electronic equipment responsible for ensuring safe end-of life treatment of their old electronics. However, organized recyclers in India are as yet able to cater to only 3-5% of the entire market.
Though there are multiple definitions of E-Waste & WEEE circulating these days,the most complete and accurate one is the one given by OECD & EU:
“Any appliance using an electric power supply that has reached its end-of-life would come under WEEE(Waste Elctrical & Electronic Equipment.“