Proposals and Recommendations

Consumer Awareness Building

1- E Waste management as national Agenda should be promoted for spreading awareness regarding e-waste

Clean India Mission + Digital India Mission = Clean Digital India Mission

• Cross Ministry Collaboration, Skill India Mission

2- School should incorporate e-waste related education in to the academics.

3 Compelling consumers to deposit back their equipment to producers.

• Imposing high ARF (Advance Recycling Fee) and deposit refund scheme should be strictly followed.

• 10-15% of the cost of commodity should be the deposit refund.

• Implemented by all the large producer companies.

Proposals and Recommendations

Other Policy Level Recommendations

• Collection and recycling centres in the development plans. Reserving space for scrap markets in the development plans.

• Taxing E waste manufacturers with an obsolescence tax that would be levied on all products that would enter the E waste stream.

• The tax collection could be diverted to create the institutional mechanisms/frameworks to support informal waste collectors and micro enterprises.

• The ARF should be levied on the price of the equipment.

• Extra price should be added to the MRP of the equipment as the refund value on depositing back to producers.

• The rule should be enforced that that all the bulk consumers should sell their scrap by the means of bidding etc; only to the registered scrap dealers who comply with the proposed system.