Saturday, September 24, 2016

E-waste collection drive begins in Almora

ALMORA: In a bid to ensure that tourists flocking to the picturesque town of Almora are not greeted by mounds of garbage, an e-waste collection drive has kicked off here.

Green Hills, an NGO, has launched a campaign to collect all kinds of electronic waste such as discarded computers, laptops, printers, fax machines, mobile phones, chargers, electronic toys, batteries, television, calculators etc so that the waste can be recycled.

Asha D'Souza, the founder of the NGO, said, "We were shocked to see the amount of electronic waste dumped at garbage collection sites in Almora. Sometimes people also sell electronic items to rag pickers and scrap dealers. They, however, don't have any training in proposal disposal of e-waste and usually burn the materials they do not need thus causing irreversible harm to the environment and public health."

The NGO has teamed up with Attero, a Roorkee-based waste management company, which will collect the electronic waste from Almora and extract pure metals like gold, silver, copper, etc from it. Earlier, as part of an e-waste collection drive, the organization had collected nearly 100 kg of e-waste from different schools in Almora.

TOI

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